The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't
- ISBN-10
- 0143125087
- ISBN-13
- 9780143125082
- Series
- The Signal and the Noise
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 534
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Nate Silver
Description
The founder of FiveThirtyEight.com challenges myths about predictions in subjects ranging from the financial market and weather to sports and politics, profiling the world of prediction to explain how readers can distinguish true signals from hype, in a report that also reveals the sources and societal costs of wrongful predictions.
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- 2012-09-27
- 544 pages
- Paperback
- Penguin
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