The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don’t
Author: Nate Silver
One of Wall Street Journal’s Best Ten Works of Nonfiction in 2012 New York Times Bestseller”Not so different in spirit from the way public intellectuals like John Kenneth Galbraith once shaped discussions of economic policy and public figures like Walter Cronkite helped sway opinion on the Vietnam War…could turn out to be one of the more momentous books of the decade.”-New….Read More
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