Nate Silver Kicks Politico's Ass With Math
December 4, 2012
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as posted by the channel"New York Times polling guru Nate Silver took aim at Politico's brand of reporting on Friday, saying the Washington-based news outlet covers politics like sports but "not in an intelligent way at all."
Reflecting on Politico's pre-election criticism of his FiveThirtyEight model, Silver told Grantland's Bill Simmons on his "B.S. Report" podcast:
What was remarkable to me is that you had some, like, journalist for, um, Politico, or something ... who, like, tweeted ... 'All Nate's doing is averaging polls and counting electoral votes?' ... 'That's the secret sauce?' It's like, well, yeah, and the fact that you can't comprehend that very basic thing ... that says more about you than, than about me, right?"*
Cenk Uygur discusses Nate Silver's comments against Politico on Bill Simmons' Podcast. Politico has bashed Silver and his analyses in the time leading up to the elections. However, Silver was right, and he finally hits back at Politico for failing to grasp the simple logic he used.
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