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Hard cold numbers won again.

The venom directed at Nate Silver before the election was astonishing. I guess the pundits had sensed their careers of predication were numbered and fought back hard, but Nate was proved right again. Kudos.



Perhaps this will lead to a greater interest in statistics and data in general politics and less in pundit opinions. Haha, who am I kidding...


There will always be a market for uninformed jabbering. Pundits wouldn't worry if they looked at their own record.


Is there a "pundit prediction tracker" anywhere? Somewhere that tracks the predictions made by talking heads and shows how often they're right or wrong?

> uninformed jabbering.

And for informed jabbering. It's frustrating that analysis is being replaced with opinion, especially when it's clear that opinion driven prediction is garbage.


I found a couple of things that look useful at a glance (I googled for pundit prediction tracker):

http://www.pundittracker.com/

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/11/exhaustive-collection-o...

I remember hearing about Pundit Tracker before it launched, but I didn't look into it after that.




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