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WhaTHellsgoingonhere

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15. HA!!!! It's Nate...

Reply to Cirque du So-What (Reply #2)

Sun Mar 23, 2014, 01:52 PM

Mar 2014

Nate says GOP 60% likely to win Senate and 30% likely to have a landslide victory.

Buh-bye, Nate, but you've outlived your usefulness at DU

Nate Silver revealed a new forecast on Sunday via his new venture, FiveThirtyEight.com, projecting that Republicans have about a 60 percent chance of wining at least 6 Senate seats to take control of the upper chamber in November.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/nate-silver-gop-senate

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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