Nate Silver's new web-site is a web-site on the Internet. Besides that, it often combines inane Buzz-feedy clickbait ("The Beatles Aren't Bigger Than Jesus (Or Even Moses) at the Movies") with regression analysis. Perhaps there is an untapped market for painstakingly statistically valid online quizzes that can tell you What Twilight Character You Are to a fare-the-well, but, you know, shoot me.
What gets me about Silver Unchained is that the thing he got famous for is something that's very simple and not hard to understand. That is, aggregate polling from many sources is more likely to be correct than outliers. And you don't need to do the math to grasp why that's so.
It's really not that big a deal and also not something that only he thought of. He just happened to be the one who got famous. This is not a dis. Good for him. In this weirdo age, anyone who manages to get empirical reality acknowledged as a data point deserves a huzzah. I am not at all joking or snarking.
But then again, jumping forward, his whole "fox/hedgehog" thing is weird, in that he seems to believe that nobody has heard of it before, but then, well, everyone... has?
The obvious hedgehog here is Silver, in love with statistics, who pens an entire manifesto about the flaws of mainstream journalism that doesn't even rise to the analytical level of vulgar materialism.
Apart from providing a better guide than you'd expect from your average bookie, Silver's site is shite.