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by gnicholas 920 days ago
You think that Nate Silver used Google to find out about the American political landscape? Don't you think that the many years he spent working in a field where he learned a lot about American politics would have made him pretty well-informed on the topic?
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The question is, which perspectives did he expose himself to during that time, and what did he conclude from those inquiries? Data is easy; interpretation is hard. It's not enough to say he had an accurate model, it has to be reasonable, too.