David Brooks is mistaken, Joe Scarborough is wrong, and Nate Silver type statistical models are good for democracy

Reading about the debate over Nate Silver’s model, I came across this very revealing quote by Joe Scarborough, and how statistical innumeracy is hampering a discussion of polls, statistical models, and election predictions.  According to Politico’s Byers, Scarborough said this on television: “Nate Silver says this is a 73.6 percent chance that the president is [...]