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You DARE Enter Nate Silver's Domain, SCOTUS?

Nate Silver politely slaps down Chief Justice John Roberts and his use of statistics during oral arguments.

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As much as it pleases me to see statistical data introduced in the Supreme Court, the act of citing statistical factoids is not the same thing as drawing sound inferences from them.

— Nate Silver, statistician extraordinaire, rebuking Chief Justice John Roberts’s use of statistics during oral arguments in Shelby County v. Holder, and noting that the voting ratios cited weren’t “meaningful in either a statistical or a practical sense.”

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