Election forecasters took a lot of blame for getting the outcome of the presidential race wrong. But Nate Silver, editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight, says the outrage is misplaced because journalists and the public were warned that the race was close. He admits that while there were polling errors, they weren’t out of the normal range. He talks with Brooke about how the real error might be our loyalty to conventional wisdom over data that suggests otherwise.
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