Book Business' The Best We Read 2012
We asked staff and contributors to tell us about the best books they read in the last year.
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Brian Howard, Editor in Chief
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't, by Nate Silver (Penguin Press, 2012)
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In the year when Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight fame proved himself the king of all political predictions, he released a book detailing the inherent flaws in the current culture of punditry. Yes, part of it is that a lot of these pundits don't know a lot about what they're predicting, or that they're more concerned with being entertaining than right, but on a more fundamental level, it's about hedgehogs and foxes. Hedgehogs know one big thing and organize new information to fit into their worldview, while foxes know lots of little things and allow new data equal footing in their scope of knowledge. Guess which make better predictions?
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