It seems like David Shor tried to do the same thing to politics that Billy Beane’s team successfully did to baseball—replace intuition with statistics and careful quantitative analysis—but he ended up failing. Why was that?
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It seems like David Shor tried to do the same thing to politics that Billy Beane’s team successfully did to baseball—replace intuition with statistics and careful quantitative analysis—but he ended up failing. Why was that?