As the replies state, still killing more people than motor vehicles, guns and opioids combined - 700 deaths yesterday. Not to mention long covid (currently 8% of the US population), knock on effects to healthcare, continued pressure on collapsing public education…what a fucking master of understanding systems the numbers wizard is.
Someone flush this motherfucker’s laptop down the toilet, give him a wedgie with his lanyard and put him in the gulag for dorks.
Moneyball was a mistake. It made folks like Silver - people who are OK with statistics but don't actually have a really deep understanding of how to use statistics - thinking they're the smartest person in the room wherever they go. Doesn't matter if they don't know the first thing about the field - whether it's baseball or say, epidemiology - they think DATA is all they need and they can figure it all out.
Nate Silver is the world's largest gifted child, a record that will be broken by every subsequent large gifted child
Very true