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Re:FiveThirtyEight relaunches on NYTimes.com by spec on Thursday August 26, 2010 @02:21AM (#1635233)
You are absolutely and factually wrong. He absolutely calls them predictions when he is right. Here is a direct quote from Silver: "predicting 49 of 50 states correctly in the presidential election." http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/welcome-...
Re:FiveThirtyEight relaunches on NYTimes.com by philwelch on Thursday August 26, 2010 @02:40AM (#1635273)
OK--he does, in fact, use the word "prediction", but on the same token, he's still fairly open about his predictions being probabilistic in nature, and about the predictions changing over time as more evidence is presented.

But you're going to have to do better than pounce on my word choice if you want to prove your point.