The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-But Some Don't by Nate Silver
Published 2012 · 149,600 words · about 10 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-But Some Don't to read?
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-But Some Don't scores 51 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 48 out of 100
- Statistical vocabulary explained as it arrives.
- Sentence structure: 48 out of 100
- Clear journalistic sentences.
- Abstraction: 58 out of 100
- Concrete case studies building a general argument about prediction.
- Information density: 68 out of 100
- Heavy with data across a dozen fields.
How The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-But Some Don't is regarded
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-But Some Don't holds a literary regard score of 51 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.