Nate Silver Biography
Nate Silver is a baseball, basketball, and election statistician, writer, and poker player from the United States. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight, as well as an ABC News Special Correspondent.
Nate Silver Age
Silver is 44 years old as of 2022. He was born Nathaniel Read Silver on 13 January 1978 in East Lansing, Michigan, United States.
Nate Silver Height
Silver stands at a height of 5 feet and 6 inches(1.70 m).
Nate Silver Family
Silver is the son of Sally (née Thrun), a community organizer, and Brian David Silver, a former chair of Michigan State University’s political science department. Silver’s English and German ancestors include some notable men and women, including his maternal great-grandfather, Harmon Lewis, who served as president of the Alcoa Steamship Company, Inc. Silver’s father’s family include two notable geologists, Leon Silver and Caswell Silver. Silver has stated that he is “half-Jewish.”
Caswell Silver and Leon Silver’s great-uncle Silver is a geologist. He is a great-great-nephew of embryologist Warren Harmon Lewis and his wife, biologist Margaret Reed Lewis, and a great-grandson of Harmon Lewis, President of Alcoa Steamship Company.
Nate Silver Partner
Silver is a proud gay man. In an article about the Supreme Court ruling Obergefell v. Hodges in favor of recognizing same-sex marriage on the date of its announcement, Silver described his sexuality in the context of growing up in East Lansing. He examined the rate of change in public opinion, pointing out that the shift took only a few decades for contemporary generations to notice.
Nate Silver Education
Silver achieved first place in the state of Michigan in the 49th annual John S. Knight Scholarship Contest for senior high school debaters in 1996 while a student at East Lansing High School. Silver earned a Bachelor of Arts in economics with honors from the University of Chicago in 2000. He also contributed to the Chicago Maroon and the Chicago Weekly News. He went to the London School of Economics for his third year.
Nate Silver 538
The website’s name comes from the number of electors in the United States electoral college, which is sometimes referred to simply as 538. The final update of Silver’s model at 10:10 a.m. on the morning of the November 6, 2012, presidential election projected President Barack Obama a 90.9 percent chance of obtaining a majority of the 538 electoral votes.
Nate Silver FiveThirtyEight
Silver is the founder and editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight, as well as an ABC News Special Correspondent. Silver rose to prominence after creating PECOTA, a system for predicting the performance and career development of Major League Baseball players, which he sold to Baseball Prospectus and then maintained from 2003 to 2009.
After an election forecasting system, he built successfully anticipated the outcomes in 49 of the 50 states in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election, Silver was named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in 2009. The forecasting method correctly predicted the winner of all 50 states and the District of Columbia in the 2012 US presidential election. The New York Times leased the FiveThirtyEight blog for publishing in 2010. Nate Silver sold the site to ESPN in 2013, where he was named Editor-in-Chief. In 2016, they predicted that Donald Trump had a lower chance of winning than Hillary Clinton. Their 28 percent chance of winning was, however, substantially higher than most other analysts’ predictions.
Nate Silver Net Worth
Silver has an estimated net worth of $3 million.
Nate Silver political views
Silver began writing a political journal under the pseudonym Poblano on the progressive political blog Daily Kos on November 1, 2007. His predictions for the 2008 US presidential primary elections attracted a lot of attention, with William Kristol citing them. Silver launched his own site, FiveThirtyEight.com, on March 7, 2008, while still posting as “Poblano.” Nate Silver won the FiveThirtyEight.com blog and the 2010 FIFA World Cup in November 2008 after correctly predicting the outcome of the US presidential election. He began writing a monthly feature column for Esquire in January 2009, titled “The Data,” and contributed articles to publications such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
After March 2009, he published only two “Lies, Damned Lies” columns on BaseballProspectus.com. He also tried his luck in the 2009 World Series of Poker. Since 2010, Silver has been a blogger for The New York Times. His FiveThirtyEight blog was nearly entirely dedicated to predicting the results of the 2010 United States Senate and House elections. The number of people who frequent the Times’ political coverage has risen, both in absolute terms and as a percentage of total site visitors. ESPN stated in July 2013 that it has purchased the blog’s website and trademark.
Executive editor Jill Abramson “went on a full-court campaign” to keep Silver at The New York Times, according to New York magazine. On March 17, 2014, FiveThirtyEight was relaunched under ESPN’s ownership. Silver defined the areas that would be covered under the “data journalism” umbrella. He devised a method for following polls and estimating the outcome of the general election in 2008.
His website’s popularity skyrocketed after the primaries in North Carolina and Indiana on May 6. His demographic analysis-based predictions were far more accurate than those of professional pollsters. Silver correctly predicted the victor of 49 of the 50 states and the District of Columbia in his final 2008 presidential election forecast. He also properly predicted the winners of every Senate election in the United States.
His mid-term congressional projections in 2010 were not as accurate as those in 2008, but they were still within the indicated confidence interval. On June 7, 2012, Silver released the first version of his general election forecasts for 2012. Every one of the 50 states and the District of Columbia was accurately predicted by his model. The FiveThirtyEight crew estimated Hillary Clinton had a 64.5 percent chance of winning the 2016 US presidential election in the week coming up to the election.
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