Nate Silver

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

So I'm admittedly kind of prickly about criticism after elections that both our model and our broader reporting handled quite robustly, which only happened because we put so much work into them. Especially given that the topline outcome + 48/50 states were "called" correctly. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 9, 2020

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

There is a LOT of work that goes into thinking about how to model out poll error and uncertainty. Thousands of hours of painstaking, detailed work. It's hard. Also a LOT of work that goes into how to describe it visually, and verbally, which is equally painstaking. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 9, 2020

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

Yeah, this is interesting. Polls have generally been more accurate over the period that 538 has made forecasts (2008-2018) than they have been over the long run. So there have been somewhat fewer upsets than the model expected based on the long-term data it was trained on. — PolitiTweet.org

@NateSilver538 Interesting. It does look, if anything, like the politics predictions undersell the certainty. (Wh… https://t.co/i1k8w1D8t7

Posted Nov. 9, 2020