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Nate Silver on the Supreme Court and the Underrated Stat for Finding Good Food (Live at Mason)

Feb 23, 2016

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

How Much Data Do People Want?

3min

How to Beat Political Markets

2min

The Differences Between Forecasting and Futurism

3min

The Importance of Data in Matchmaking

2min

The Importance of Priors in Early Polls

3min

The Party's Weaker Than We Thought

2min

The Importance of Defense in Baseball

2min

Mickey Stanley: The Underrated Candidate in the Republican Race

2min

10.

The Ted Cruz Theory: Is This Election Not About Swing Voters?

3min

11.

The Most Statistically Impressive Baseball Record

3min

12.

The Best Regression Showing Data Analytics Work in Sports

2min

13.

The Importance of Data in Soccer

2min

14.

The Negative Effects of Knuckleballers on the Market

2min

15.

Underrated vs. Overrated

3min

16.

The Strange Constraints of Freedom

2min

17.

The Net Social Externality of Fantasy Sports Gambling

2min

18.

The Benefits of Gambling and Fantasy Sports

2min

19.

The Importance of Micro Management

2min

20.

How to Find a Good Restaurant

3min

21.

The Wet Bias in Weather Reporting

2min

22.

The Importance of a Fiscal Model

2min

23.

The Economics and Sociology of Sports

2min

24.

The Importance of Individualism in Sports

4min

25.

The Future of Political Volatility

6min

26.

Who Will Be the Next President of the United Arab Emirates?

2min

27.

Obama's Supreme Court Pick

2min

28.

How to Have Better Trips

2min

29.

How to Use Super Forecasters to Improve Your Models

2min

30.

How Much Data Do People Want?

5min

31.

How to Predict Presidential Elections

2min

32.

The Role of Facebook and Twitter in Confirmation Bias

5min

33.

The Role of the Media in Politics

3min

Nate Silver joins Tyler Cowen for a conversation on data, forecasting, My Bloody Valentine, the social value of gambling, Donald Trump and the presidential field, vacation advice, Supreme Court picks, the wisdom of Björk, and the most underrated statistic for finding good food.

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