{"id":3862,"date":"2016-02-29T14:31:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T19:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/?p=3862"},"modified":"2016-02-29T21:25:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T02:25:51","slug":"the-sociology-of-silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/2016\/02\/29\/the-sociology-of-silver\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sociology of Nate Silver and 538: #TSPpolitics"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3829\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3829\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/politics\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3829\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3829\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/files\/2016\/02\/social-side-of-politics-cover.jpg\" alt=\"Click for companion content.\" width=\"235\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/files\/2016\/02\/social-side-of-politics-cover.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/files\/2016\/02\/social-side-of-politics-cover-232x330.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for companion content.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As we head into tomorrow&#8217;s Super Tuesday contests, statistics, analytics, and minutia of all sorts are being bandied about, examined for their possible predictions and the clues they can give us about how those who turn out to caucus will make their choices for the presidential candidates who want to represent them. In a classic piece, Skidmore College&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skidmore.edu\/sociology\/faculty\/lindner.php\">Andrew Lindner<\/a>\u00a0looks at how such numbers and stats remain a form of elite knowledge in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/specials\/silver\/\">The Sociology of Silver<\/a>,&#8221;\u00a0published online and\u00a0in our first TSP volume with W.W. Norton &amp; Company,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.wwnorton.com\/books\/webad.aspx?id=4294978500\">The Social Side of Politics<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we head into tomorrow&#8217;s Super Tuesday contests, statistics, analytics, and minutia of all sorts are being bandied about, examined for their possible predictions and the clues they can give us about how those who turn out to caucus will make their choices for the presidential candidates who want to represent them. In a classic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":495,"featured_media":3829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,31344,38,33321,85,3312,33319,626,33322],"class_list":["post-3862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-education","tag-elitism","tag-methods","tag-moneyball","tag-politics","tag-privilege","tag-statistical-analysis","tag-statistics","tag-stats"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/files\/2016\/02\/social-side-of-politics-cover.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3863,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862\/revisions\/3863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}