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Once something is predictable, it becomes designable – you can start thinking about solutions to solving that problem, even if the problem is as pernicious and intractable as racism.

Does racism affect how you vote? Rockstar statistician Nate Silver, author of The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don’t, uses stats to counter mythology in this dynamic, fascinating, and surprising TED talk. 

Prediction wunderkind Nate Silver gives a taste of his new book, The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail but Some Don’t, at Authors @ Google – absolutely fascinating.