Over at Grasping Reality: Elementary Philosophy of Probability and the War on Nate Silver: The (Not Very) Honest Broker for the Week of August 2, 2014
Over at Grasping Reality: Elementary Philosophy of Probability and the War on Nate Silver: The (Not Very) Honest Broker for the Week of August 2, 2014: Of all the weird things that have happened in the American public sphere in my life, the most weird was the War on Nate Silver–launched in the fall of 2012 by David Brooks, Joe Scarborough, Dylan Byers, and a remarkably large company. The underlying argument appeared to be that Nate Silver was doing something wrong and unfair by using… evidence. By… counting things. By… using statistics. By… estimating probabilities…