{"id":31279,"date":"2012-11-08T10:10:15","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T17:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/08\/unskewed-apology.html"},"modified":"2012-11-08T10:10:15","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T17:10:15","slug":"unskewed-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/08\/unskewed-apology.html","title":{"rendered":"Unskewed apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, maybe not an apology, but Dean Chambers of Unskewedpolls.com is being\u00a0quite open in admitting that his poll interpretation model was way off, and that Nate Silver was correct. (Chambers had not only previously disagreed with Silver, but dismissed him as &quot;a thin and effeminate man with a soft-sounding voice that sounds almost exactly like the &#39;Mr. New Castrati&#39; voice used by Rush Limbaugh on his program&quot;).<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, he doesn&#39;t expect to go back to &quot;unskew&quot;ing next election. So that&#39;s something.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images3-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/static5.businessinsider.com\/image\/506367736bb3f7cc4b00000f\/unskewed-pollster-nate-silver-was-right-and-i-was-wrong.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/read.bi\/PE5HAx'>&#8216;Unskewed&#8217; Pollster: &#8216;Nate Silver Was Right, And I Was Wrong&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&#8220;My assumptions were wrong.&#8221;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/EaNMbKDAEYG' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, maybe not an apology, but Dean Chambers of Unskewedpolls.com is being\u00a0quite open in admitting that his poll interpretation model was way off, and that Nate Silver was correct. 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