Fivethirtyeight blogger12/14/2023 ![]() His maternal great-grandfather, Harmon Lewis, was president of the Alcoa Steamship Company, Inc. ![]() Silver's mother's family was of English and German descent. Silver was born in East Lansing, Michigan, the son of Sally (née Thrun), a community activist, and Brian David Silver, a former chair of the political science department at Michigan State University. Much of Silver's approach can be characterized by using probabilistic and statistical modelling to try and understand complex social systems, such as professional sports, the popularity of political platforms, and elections. His subsequent election forecasting systems predicted the outcome of the 20 presidential elections with a high degree of accuracy, and-at the time-gave presidential candidate Donald Trump the highest chance of success the day of the 2016 presidential election among reputable forecasts at the time. Silver was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time in 2009 after an election forecasting system he developed successfully predicted the outcomes in forty-nine of the fifty states in the 2008 U.S. He is the founder of FiveThirtyEight, and held the position of editor-in-chief there, along with being a special correspondent for ABC News, until May 2023. Nathaniel Read Silver (born January 13, 1978) is an American statistician, writer, and poker player who analyzes baseball (see sabermetrics), basketball, and elections (see psephology). University of Chicago ( BA) London School of Economics ![]()
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