What Nate Silver thinks about racism

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Forecaster, founder of FiveThirtyEight, author of The Signal and the Noise and On the Edge. Writes Silver Bulletin, where the predictions come with numbers and the numbers are later checked against what happened.

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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Nate Silver has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 20 Oct 2026, 22:44 UTC

   Our readingThe models that treated races as a series of independent coin flips have died out.

   Their wordsThe models that wrongly treated races as a series of independent coin flips have died out, and deservedly so.

   ↗My pet peeve about the polling error debatenatesilver.net