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		brisance on June 30, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Researchers Realized Research 2000's Daily Kos... Not true. If you had been following Nate Silver's site http://fivethirtyeight.com/ in the lead up to the presidential election, you'd have gotten VERY accurate poll results.

jamesseda on June 30, 2010 [–]

Nate Silver isn't a pollster. He is a statistician that dissects the polls to find the inaccuracies.

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/06/pollster-ratings-v40-...

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