The signal and the noise : why so many predictions--fail but some don't
Summary
Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair's breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger. Drawing on his own groundbreaking work, Silver examines the world of prediction. Full description
- A Catastrophic failure of prediction
- Are you smarter than a television pundit
- All I care about is W's and L's
- For years you've been telling us that rain is green
- Desperately seeking signal
- How to drown in three feet of water
- Role models
- Less and less and less wrong
- Rage against the machines
- The poker bubble
- If you can't beat 'em
- A climate of healthy skepticism
- What you don't know can hurt you.