Score Another One for Nate Silver

Posted on 03/06/2009 at 4:50 pm by JumpyPants

Back when the president first introduced the recovery bill, Nate Silver predicted that the dollar amount was lower than expected because the president would allow Congress to attach more spending and therefore increase the total stimulus (more spending = more stimulus).

Once again, Nate Silver was exactly right.

Of course this isn’t great news because the president seriously misjudged what would happen. But goddamn. Silver is a wizard.

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  • joshd

    Silver seems to actually possess the magical powers that people would superstitiously ascribe to Alan Greenspan.

  • SillyRatfacedGit

    Nate is scary smart. I’m glad he’s on our side. Of course he appears to be on the side of facts.

  • http://www.windonwater.net QueenTiye

    When the world gets overwhelmingly confusing, I turn to fivethirtyeight.com.QT

  • jane

    Git, that’s the weird thing about facts. They just ‘appear’ and shit like that.

  • http://eclectablog.blogspot.com Eclectablog

    I had a chance to have a drink and a chat with Nate Silver last December at an Organizing for America conference in Chicago and, I have to confess, at first, I couldn’t shake the impression that he’s a total geek who is barely comfortable in his own skin. But, after awhile, despite his apparent discomfort at hanging out with a largish number of people around him and his nearly complete lack of eye contact with anyone, I got comfortable with him and realized the problem was more with me than him. Go figure.He gave a talk at the Conference and was, of course, brilliant.