Michael Gerson Has Trouble with Numbers and Is Jealous of Those Who Don't

Michael Gerson used his column today to make a bizarre attack on the NYT's polling analyst Nate Silver. He complains to readers:

"Silver’s prediction is not an innovation; it is trend taken to its absurd extreme. He is doing little more than weighting and aggregating state polls and combining them with various historical assumptions to project a future outcome to project a future outcome with exaggerated, attention-grabbing exactitude. His work is better summarized as an 86.3 percent confiden...