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Thursday, December 20, 2012

Review of Nate Silver's book

Wow, this is a great review - of how Silver overestimates his own expertise in the financial and medical fields, essentially by failing to model the context in which numerical models are originated and used.
Posted by Michael at 11:11 AM
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