Conversations with Tyler Nate Silver on the Supreme Court and the Underrated Stat for Finding Good Food (Live at Mason)
Feb 23, 2016
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Biggest Data Improvement Areas
- Data can bring the biggest improvements in health, criminal justice, education, and urban planning.
- Many sectors, like doctors, still lack analytic focus despite having valuable data.
Limits of Market Forecasts
- Markets are generally good at forecasting but can have non-linear large errors.
- Political markets especially have limitations in liquidity and sophistication.
Rubio’s Underrated GOP Appeal
- Marco Rubio is an underrated Republican candidate with broad appeal across party sectors.
- The key election question remains the ceiling Trump might reach in support percentages.