{"id":5753,"date":"2012-11-07T12:06:23","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T17:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/?p=5753"},"modified":"2012-11-09T15:26:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T20:26:03","slug":"and-now-some-natesilverfacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/11\/and-now-some-natesilverfacts.html","title":{"rendered":"And, now, some #natesilverfacts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Why is there not (to my knowledge) a Hey Girl Nate Silver tumblr yet?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

A Dennett post later today, I promise, but I\u2019m terribly amused by the #natesilverfacts<\/a> meme on twitter. \u00a0Here are my favorites:<\/p>\n

@mdlevinson<\/a>: Nate Silver\u2019s great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson\u2019s name is going to be Hari Seldon. #natesilverfacts<\/p>\n

@temiri<\/a>: Nate Silver once walked over each of the bridges in Konigsberg exactly once. #natesilverfacts<\/p>\n

@dilefante<\/a>: Nate Silver\u2019s samples have only a median and a mode. Because no number would be mean to Nate Silver. #natesilverfacts<\/p>\n

@edwardbenson<\/a>: Nate Silver escaped from a Prisoner of War camp by shrugging and making an independence assumption #natesilverfacts<\/p>\n

@edwardbenson<\/a>: Nate Silver doesn\u2019t keep a calendar. He keeps a giant conditional probability table filled with time-series data. #natesilverfacts<\/p>\n

@Smedette<\/a>: Nate Silver can recite Pi. Backwards. #NateSilverFacts<\/p>\n

@clarklab<\/a>: Statistical margin of error will now be referred to as \u201cDistance from Nate\u201d #natesilverfacts<\/p>\n

@perko<\/a>: When rappers tell the crowd to \u201cmake some noise,\u201d all Nate Silver hears is the signal. #natesilverfacts<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Silver\u2019s fivethirtyeight<\/a> blog was visited by\u00a0ten to twenty percent<\/em> of\u00a0NYT<\/em> website users who looked at anything in the politics section, according to\u00a0The New Republic<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0And in the last week, that figure went to 71%. \u00a0Slate has a reasonable debunking<\/a> of the question on everyone\u2019s lips: Is Nate Silver a Witch<\/a>? \u00a0Silver does the numbers well, but he soars above the political commentariat because the polls are a better prediction of the results than the narratives and gut instincts and goodness-clear-outcomes-are-boring approach of the pundits.<\/p>\n

And for the other fun Silver links and tweets:<\/p>\n

@KenJennings<\/a>: Romney could still win this if too many Dems accidentally write-in \u201cNate Silver\u201d with little hearts around it.<\/p>\n

@resnikoff<\/a>: PEOPLE OF AMERICA DON\u2019T YOU SEE WHAT YOU\u2019RE DOING, STOP VOTING LIKE NATE SILVER TELLS YOU TO<\/p>\n

@fivethirtynate<\/a>: Molten variables hiss and roar. On my mind-forge, I hammer them into the greatsword Epistemology. Many are my foes this night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That last one\u2019s the\u00a0parody<\/em> account, don\u2019t forget. \u00a0I\u2019ll admit, I\u2019m pretty tempted to put it on a sampler.<\/p>\n

Oh, and I can\u2019t leave out xkcd<\/a> (if you\u2019re not a regular reader, remember to mouse over for the alt-text).<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

UPDATE: there\u2019s a profile up of the guy behind @fivethirtynate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Dennett post later today, I promise, but I\u2019m terribly amused by the #natesilverfacts meme on twitter. \u00a0Here are my favorites: @mdlevinson: Nate Silver\u2019s great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson\u2019s name is going to be Hari Seldon. #natesilverfacts @temiri: Nate Silver once walked over each of the bridges in Konigsberg exactly once. #natesilverfacts @dilefante: Nate Silver\u2019s samples have only a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":5755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-5753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-statistics"],"yoast_head":"\nAnd, now, some #natesilverfacts<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Dennett post later today, I promise, but I'm terribly amused by the #natesilverfacts meme on twitter. 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