He’s 50 per cent Jewish — and almost 100 per cent accurate when predicting election results.
Nate Silver, the 34-year-old pollster for the New York Times, was the man in the news last week after he called the elections for incumbent Barack Obama with amazing accuracy.
This both repeated his feat of 2008, when he accurately predicted the results in 49 of the 50 states, and answered his mostly Republican critics, who had called his methods and objectivity into question in the weeks prior to the election.
A maths whizz, Mr Silver developed his statistical acumen analysing baseball games and playing poker.
