Weather, Silver, And Innumeracy

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Simply Statistics discusses the recent attacks aimed at statisticians who are forecasting the 2012 election:

I don’t know much about Dylan Byers, but from reading this column and a quick scan of his twitter feed, it appears he doesn’t know much about statistics. Some people have gotten pretty upset at him on Twitter and elsewhere about this fact, but I’d like to take a different approach: education.

A good article. I’d recommend reading it.

(via: Patrick Marsh)