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Nate Silver
Zeinab Badawi talks to Nate Silver, a political astrologer. Has he robbed electoral campaigns of their substance by reducing them to mere statistics and number-crunching?
Nate Silver is seen as a political astrologer with an uncanny ability to get it right. His prediction of the US presidential election result last year was spot on�when most pundits were saying the race was too close to call. No wonder then that Nate Silver is being credited with re-shaping the art and science of political forecasting. But has he robbed electoral campaigns of their substance by reducing them to mere statistics and number-crunching?
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Tue 7 May 2013
20:30GMT
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Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Zeinab Badawi |
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- Tue 7 May 2013 03:30GMTÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News except UK
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