Nate Silver (statistician)
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Who is Nate Silver and what is his background?
So, Nate, I want to start by saying happy birthday to you. Thank you. Happy birthday. Yeah, you're here on your birthday. This is a very Capricorn thing to do.
You kind of have a lot of shit packed together. You have the holidays already. It feels a little greedy to have your birthday. Self-indulging. Yeah, yeah. I don't want to have a birthday so soon after the holidays. Well, mine's the second.
So I'd argue mine's just 11 days worse than yours. Yay. Because it's right on the heels of all that. That's probably bad. And are you, in general, someone who has no desire to celebrate your birthday?
I come from a mixed family where my dad's side's very anti-celebration and my mom's side's very pro-celebration.
Okay.
I'm kind of balancing out the recessive traits. Okay.
You're right smack in the middle. Well, as I was learning a little bit more about your background, I was like, we have a lot in common here because I'm from Milford. Oh, cool. Which is what, 25 miles as the crow flies from East Lansing. And your dad taught at MSU or still does?
He retired a couple of years ago. But yeah, I taught at MSU. So like a university kid. It's a good place to grow up. I found that I have like an unconscious hiring bias toward Midwesterners. They're just grounded students.
Well, again, you want them somewhere on the spectrum where they're not constantly bitching about someone who tried to get one over on them. You know, we do have a big chip on our shoulder about feeling less than. So you want just the right amount of less than so they work their ass off, but not the kind that bitches all day.
No, and you can detect. I was at the airport in Dallas one time. I'm like, that person sounds really familiar. And they're from East Lansing. I didn't know who they are. They should like a certain manner of speaking. You know, those micro dialect things. Yeah, I have a little bit of that.
So you kind of discovered that you love math in a very appropriate time. So I only know the members of a single baseball team that ever existed. It's the 84 Roar, the Detroit Tigers. Yeah. Alan Tramwine. I know his name. Yeah. No, the whole gang.
You were six-ish when that happened? I was six years old and I liked numbers. I don't think I ever thought I could become a baseball player. I was like never that delusional.
Right, right, right, right.
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