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HARDtalk: Nate Silver - Statistician

Nate Silver

07/05/2013

Nate Silver - Statistician

BBC News Channel - HARDtalk, Nate Silver - Statistician

Zeinab Badawi talks to Nate Silver, who is credited with re-shaping political forecasting.

Interviews with newsmakers and personalities from across the globe. Zeinab Badawi talks to Nate Silver, credited with re-shaping the art and science of political forecasting.

Nate Silver is seen as a political astrologer with an uncanny ability to get it right. His prediction of the US presidential election result last year was spot on when most pundits were saying the race was too close to call. No wonder then that Nate Silver is being credited with re-shaping the art and science of political forecasting. But has he robbed electoral campaigns of their substance by reducing them to mere statistics and number-crunching?

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