Nate Silver In His Cookie Monster Tee Has A Surprisingly In-Depth Interview With Conan O’Brien

Nate Silver — the famous statistician and founder of the FiveThirtyEight blog — who predicted perfectly all 50 states in the November presidential election, talks with Conan O’Brien about his new book, The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail but Some Don’t. Silver and O’Brien have a rather in-depth conversation about the 2012 presidential election, and why conservatives were so shocked that Romney lost.

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Frankly, this is one of the best interviews I’ve ever seen with Silver. He’s relaxed, generous with his thoughts, and instructive.

It’s almost an hour long — play it, and if you can’t sit and watch it, turn the sound up and keep listening.

http://teamcoco.com/embed/v/44364

 

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