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"Nate Silver's The Signal and the Noise is The Soul of a New Machine for the 21st century."—Rachel Maddow, author of *Drift*Nate 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—all by the time he was thirty. The New York Times now publishes FiveThirtyEight.com, where Silver is one of the nation’s most influential political forecasters.Drawing on his own groundbreaking work, Silver examines the world of prediction, investigating how we can distinguish a true signal from a universe of noisy data. Most predictions fail, often at great cost to society, because most of us have a poor understanding of probability and uncertainty. Both experts and laypeople mistake more confident predictions for more accurate ones. But overconfidence is often the reason for failure. If our appreciation of uncertainty improves, our predictions can get better too. This is the “prediction paradox”: The more humility we have about our ability to make predictions, the more successful we can be in planning for the future.In keeping with his own aim to seek truth from data, Silver visits the m

Who reads The Signal and the Noise : Why Most Predictions Fail but Some Don't?

Author

Nate Silver

Publisher

Penguin Press; Penguin Press HC, The

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781846147524

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Business, History

Rating

3.97 / 5 (27,729 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14