Nate Silver

Born 13 January 1978

From East Lansing, Michigan, United States · Nationality: United States · Writes nonfiction

Nathaniel Read Silver is an American statistician, writer, and poker player who analyzes baseball, basketball, and elections. --Wikipedia

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Quotes

“One of the reasons why I was initially skeptical about Trump is that America has a history of not nominating candidates, and electing candidates, rightly, who are blatantly unfit for office.”
2016 https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/nate-silver/

Books by Nate Silver in order

Books by Nate Silver in the order they were published, from The Signal and the Noise (2012) to Title TBA 328292 (2024).

Michael LewisWrites accessible nonfiction about statistics and decision-making in sports and finance, such as Moneyball and The Undoing Project.
Daniel KahnemanHis work on judgment and cognitive bias, in Thinking, Fast and Slow, gives the psychology behind many of the forecasting errors Silver describes.
Philip TetlockCo-author of Superforecasting, which studies what makes some forecasters more accurate than others.
Cathy O'NeilWrites critically about how statistical models can cause harm, in Weapons of Math Destruction, which offers a skeptical counterpoint to Silver's optimism about models.
Annie DukeA former professional poker player who writes about decision-making under uncertainty in Thinking in Bets, close to the themes of On the Edge.
Bill JamesA foundational figure in baseball statistics whose methods shaped the sabermetric tradition that Silver came out of.