Does Nate Silver have knowledge of statistics?
The Signal and the Noise: The Signal and the Noise : Why Most Predictions Fail – but Some Don't (alternatively stylized as The Signal and the Noise : Why So Many Predictions Fail – but Some Don't) is a 2012 book by Nate Silver detailing the art of using probability and statistics as applied to real-world circumstances. The Signal and the Noise:  The book includes richly detailed case studies from baseball, elections, climate change, the financial crash, poker, and weather forecasting. Nate Silver: Nathaniel Read Silver (born January 13, 1978) is an American statistician and writer who analyzes baseball (see sabermetrics) and elections (see psephology).
art of using probability and statistics