TY - GEN AU - Silver,Nate TI - The signal and the noise : : the art and science of prediction SN - 9780141975658 AV - CB 158 S587s 2013 PY - 2013/// CY - London : PB - Penguin books, KW - Pronósticos KW - Predicciones KW - Teoría bayesiana de decisiones estadísticas KW - Conocimiento, Teoría del N1 - A Catastrophic failure of prediction -- Are you smarter than a television pundit? -- All I care about is W's and L's -- For years you've been telling us that rain is green -- Desperately seeking signal -- How to drown in three feet of water -- Role models -- Less and less and less wrong -- Rage against the machines -- The poker bubble -- If you can't beat 'em -- A climate of healthy skepticism -- What you don't know can hurt you N2 - Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair's breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger. Drawing on his own groundbreaking work, Silver examines the world of prediction ER -