Scrittore e statistico americano, gay dichiarato.

Nathaniel Read “Nate” Silver is an American statistician, sabermetrician, psephologist, and writer. Silver first gained public recognition for developing PECOTA,[2] a system for forecasting the performance and career development of Major League Baseball players, which he sold to and then managed for Baseball Prospectus from 2003 to 2009.

In 2007, writing under the pseudonym “Poblano”, Silver began to publish analyses and predictions related to the 2008 United States presidential election. At first this work appeared on the political blog Daily Kos, but in March 2008 Silver established his own website, FiveThirtyEight.com. By summer of that year, after he revealed his identity to his readers, he began to appear as an electoral and political analyst in national print, online, and cable news media….

Silver is openly gay. “I’ve always felt like something of an outsider. I’ve always had friends, but I’ve always come from an outside point of view. I think that’s important. If you grow up gay, or in a household that’s agnostic, when most people are religious, then from the get-go, you are saying that there are things that the majority of society believes that I don’t believe,” he told an interviewer in 2012. “When asked what made you feel more of a misfit, being gay or being a geek, he replied, ‘Probably the numbers stuff since I had that from when I was six.'”When asked in 2008 if he had noticed people looking at him as a “gay icon,” he responded, “I’ve started to notice it a little bit, although so far it seems like I’m more a subject of geek affection than gay affection”.[153] When Dean Chambers of Unskewedpolls.com described him as “a man of very small stature” and “a thin and effeminate man with a soft-sounding voice”, and thus untrustworthy, Silver ridiculed the remarks in a tweet: “Unskewedpolls argument: Nate Silver seems kinda gay + ??? = Romney landslide!”

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