{"id":1118,"date":"2012-11-07T17:11:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T23:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2012-11-08T20:56:05","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T02:56:05","slug":"is-nate-silver-a-witch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1118","title":{"rendered":"Is Nate Silver a Witch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As of <span id=\"stamp\">press time<\/span>, <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com\/\">Nate Silver<\/a> is <em>probably a witch<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/isnatesilverawitch.com\/\">Is Nate Silver a Witch?<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The RSS feed for Nate Silver&#8217;s blog is part of the footer on this page.\u00a0\u00a0 I started following his analysis during the Obama\/Hillary primary races.\u00a0 Also a shout out to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.electoral-vote.com\/\"> electoral-vote.com<\/a> which I have followed since 2004 (Bush\/Kerry which they also called)\u00a0 and who I let have a little widget on this site during this election.\u00a0 They both called another election very well.\u00a0\u00a0 2016 will feature open primaries for both parties.\u00a0 Bookmark both pages and make money betting your friends in 2016!<\/p>\n<p>From this article:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/markcoddington.com\/2012\/10\/31\/nate-silver-journalism-politics-knowledge-epistemology\/\">Why political journalists can\u2019t stand Nate Silver: The limits of journalistic knowledge<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>No, even that\u2019s TL;DR:\u00a0<\/strong>When journalistic objectivity is confronted with scientific objectivity, its circuits are fried.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of press time, Nate Silver is probably a witch. via Is Nate Silver a Witch?. The RSS feed for Nate Silver&#8217;s blog is part of the footer on this page.\u00a0\u00a0 I started following his analysis during the Obama\/Hillary primary &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1118\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1122,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions\/1122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}