This is an audio transcript of the Working It podcast episode: ‘Why you should take more risks, with Nate Silver’ Nate Silver ...
Nate Silver, the celebrity statistician who gained notoriety for his FiveThirtyEight election models, is facing backlash ...
"Voters are communicating through polls that he's way too old and that this is a *big* problem," the FiveThirtyEight founder ...
Many polls show Vice President Kamala Harris holds a small lead nationally over former President Trump less than 50 days out ...
Election prediction models are not like polls — and Silver's Trump odds are not all that different from others.
But the roots go deeper. People have never really stopped being mad at Silver since the last election, and the people maddest ...
Despite nationwide polls pointing to a slight edge for Kamala Harris in the presidential race, prominent polling data analyst ...
Polls increasingly show voters predicting a Harris victory. Some research suggests that people are actually pretty good at predicting these things.