Nathaniel "Nate" Silver (1978-) is an American writer and statistician. He develops predictive models for sporting and political events and founded FiveThirtyEight.com and the Silver Bulletin.
If you're using a biased instrument, it doesn't matter how many measurements you take--you're aiming at the wrong target.
The key is in remembering that a model is a tool to help us understand the complexities of the universe, and never a substitute for the universe itself.
We have to view technology as what it always has been--a tool for the betterment of the human condition. We should neither worship at the altar of technology nor be frightened by it.
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.
