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Chathamization

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5. Nate Silver's a bit overrated. Both Drew Linzer and Sam Wang had more accurate predictions, IIRC

Reply to warrior1 (Original post)

Sun Mar 23, 2014, 12:44 PM

Mar 2014

That's not to say that I think he's terrible or anything, and I enjoyed reading FiveThirtyEight when it was at the Times. Having said that, the climate change article over at FiverThirtyEight right now is pretty bad, and doesn't give me much of a reason to look at the rest of the site.

Krugman's insistence on treating the word "data" as if it's plural (well, trying to at least) is annoying, though.

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Tarnished Silver (Nate Silver) by Paul Krugman [View all] warrior1 Mar 2014 OP

Today's discussion should be interesting BumRushDaShow Mar 2014 #1

Indeed Cirque du So-What Mar 2014 #2

At least Krugman doesn't descend into a screech about how 'unfair' Silver's methods are. randome Mar 2014 #3

Is there any way Cirque du So-What Mar 2014 #4

I thought Krugman was saying the opposite: that Silver is looking at ONLY the data. randome Mar 2014 #8

Prof. Krugman is a Nobel Prize winning liberal Economist, not a poll agency Hekate Mar 2014 #13

HA!!!! It's Nate... WhaTHellsgoingonhere Mar 2014 #15

Nate Silver's a bit overrated. Both Drew Linzer and Sam Wang had more accurate predictions, IIRC Chathamization Mar 2014 #5

Data is plural. cthulu2016 Mar 2014 #6

Datums is a word Chathamization Mar 2014 #9

'Data' is plural muriel_volestrangler Mar 2014 #7

People who treat it as if it's plural often have a difficult time using it consistantly Chathamization Mar 2014 #10

I'd agree that switching mid-sentence like that looks awkward muriel_volestrangler Mar 2014 #11

"Piece of data" clearly wouldn't work, just as "piece of cars" wouldn't mean a single car Chathamization Mar 2014 #14

A pox on both AngryAmish Mar 2014 #12

Well, Nate Silver has this habit of prevailing over conventional wisdom. pa28 Mar 2014 #16