Statistician Nate Silver correctly predicted the outcome of every state in the 2012 presidential election. It instantly shot him to fame in a field most people associate with the most boring class they ever took. He's been on The Daily Show twice. He has more than a million Twitter followers.
But the most important part of Silver's analysis is that he's not really making predictions. Not in the way most people think of predictions, at least.
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