{"id":16828,"date":"2012-11-10T05:23:07","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T05:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=16828"},"modified":"2012-11-10T05:26:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T05:26:45","slug":"a-qualits-tribute-to-quants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=16828","title":{"rendered":"A Qualit’s tribute to Quants"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — now the election dust has settled, let’s hear it for Nate Silver, Megyn Kelly, Zeynep Tufekci and xkcd ]
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I’m about as Qualit as you can get on the Qualit vs Quant<\/strong> side of things, and if I had a b\u00eate grise<\/em>, it might well be statistics. Why? As Albert Einstein<\/strong> once said, or is said to have said<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Look, it’s even on his blackboard:<\/p>\n

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But look: votes can be counted, and what can be counted is Quant territory. So here’s a little hommage from a Qualit to a Quant — Nate Silver<\/strong>, in this case — with a bow to Megyn Kelly<\/strong> for calling out Karl Rove<\/strong> like that (upper panel, above), and a tip of the hat to xkcd<\/strong> (lower panel) for the usual spot-on commentary from his “webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language”.<\/p>\n

Quality work, Quants!<\/p>\n

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Ah — but then, what should we do with Colbert<\/strong>‘s comment<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Math has a liberal bias<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Joking aside, one reading I’d add to Zen<\/strong>‘s post-election list<\/a> would be Zeynep Tufekci<\/strong>‘s In Defense of Nate Silver, Election Pollsters, and Statistical Predictions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron — now the election dust has settled, let’s hear it for Nate Silver, Megyn Kelly, Zeynep Tufekci and xkcd ] . . I’m about as Qualit as you can get on the Qualit vs Quant side of things, and if I had a b\u00eate grise, it might well be statistics. Why? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,415,655,758,19,251,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-elections","category-mathematics","category-quant-qualit","category-recommended-reading","category-republican-party","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16828"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16840,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16828\/revisions\/16840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}