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How Unlikely is Canada’s Stanley Cup Drought?

June 12, 2013June 11, 2013 by Staff

Is there a phrase as painful as “Canada’s Stanley Cup drought”? It’s been twenty years since Montreal Canadians brought Lord Stanley’s Cup home, but how likely is it? Wunderkind Nate Silver attempted to answer that very question in his latest instalment of FiveThirtyEight, and here’s what we learned: 1. If … Read More

Nate Silver on the Art and Science of Prediction

June 2, 2013June 2, 2013 by Staff

There were two big winners at the 2008 American election: Barack Obama, and Nate Silver. Silver correctly predicted forty-nine out of fifty states, and his website, fivethirtyeight, has since become required reading for political junkies of all stripes. In 2012, he cut through the “too close to call” nonsense spouted … Read More