Nate Silver

Nate Silver is an American statistician, journalist, and writer who analyses Elections and Baseball. He is famously known for developing PECOTA, a system for analyzing and forecasting the performance, and FiveThirtyEight, a website doing predictions. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight and ABC News Special Correspondent.

Well, how well do you know about Nate Silver? If not much, we have compiled all you need to know about Nate Silver’s net worth in 2021, his age, height, weight, wife, kids, biography and complete details about his life. Well, if you’re all set, here is what we know about Nate Silver to date.

Biography and Early Life

Silver was born on January 13th, 1978, in East Lansing, Michigan. His parents Sally (mother), a community activist, and Brian David Silver (father), former chair of the political science department at Michigan State University. Silver has also described himself as Half Jewish. From the very beginning, Silver was highly proficient in maths and too fond of Baseball, and it was more interesting for him to apply his mathematics in batting averages than solving algebra. During his college times, he used to write for Chicago Weekly News and Chicago Maroon.

Age, Height, Weight & Body Measurement

So, how old is Nate Silver in 2021 and what is his height and weight? Well, Nate Silver’s age is 43 years old as of today’s date 2nd August 2021 having been born on 13 January 1978. Though, he is 5′ 6″ in feet and inches and 167 cm in Centimetres tall, he weighs about 149 lbs in Pound and 68kg in Kilograms.

Education

Silver’s schooling happened at East Lansing High School. He also came first in the 49th Annual John S. Knight Scholarship Contest for senior high school debates. He showed his journalism traits first as writer and editor of the School’s Newspaper (1993-96). Later, Silver graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Chicago, where he spent his third year at the London School of Economics.

Personal Life: Dating, Girlfriends, Wife, Kids

Silver has many excellent relations. On the one hand, he is a great-nephew of geologists Caswell Silver and Neon Silver, a great-grandson of Harmon Lewis, the president of Alcoa Steamship Company, as well as a great-great-nephew of embryologist Warren Harmon Lewis and biologist Margaret Reed Lewis.

Is Nate Silver Gay?

YES … Silver is openly a Gay. He even said that he always felt like an outsider with different thinking. He even considers his geek nature, along with his gay characteristic, has made him an icon of the whole fraternity. So, we know for sure that Silver is gay, and we all should respect his feelings. Also, expectedly, because of this, his name hasn’t surfaced with anyone else.

Professional Career

After graduation, Silver worked with KPMG in Chicago as a transfer pricing consultant. Though, he regrets spending four precious years of his life doing something he didn’t like doing. Although, he kept on nurturing his skills and also worked on his idea PECOTA. In 2003, he became a writer for Baseball Prospectus and became its vice president and managing partner after he resigned from KPMG.

He contributed Baseball related articles for many websites. Between 2003 and 2009, Baseball Prospectus produced PECOTA projections for each Major League Baseball season. In 2007, Silver started publishing a diary under the pseudonym ‘Poblano’ on progressive political blog ‘Daily Kos’, wherein he analyzed quantitative aspects of a political game.

From there came up the idea of FiveThirtyEight, a website that takes its name from a number of electors in the US Electoral College. He went on doing some other works for predicting FIFA World Cup, creating a quantitative index for ‘Most Liveable Neighbourhoods’. From 2010, his FiveThirtyEight came under the NY Times domain and focused mainly on predicting elections.

Though its 2016 Elections predictions proved severely wrong, but they still gave much higher chances to Trump’s victory than those provided by others. Silver has often been criticized for inaccurate predictions. He has also appeared in quite a many documentaries. He even got an Emmy nomination in ‘News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story’.

Awards

In 2009, Silver was named in World’s 100 Most Influential People by TIME magazine. HE received an honorary ‘Doctor of Science’ and ‘Doctor of Literature’, and he also received a Doctoral degree from Leuven Statistics Research Centre. His book, The Signal and the Noise’ won the 2013 Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science. He also went on receiving ‘Doctor of Humane Letters’ from Amherst College, Georgetown University, and Kenyon College.

Net Worth, Salary & Earnings of Nate Silver in 2021

As of 2021, He has an estimated net worth of $1 million. Silver has been earning decent sums from all his blogs and websites related to Baseball and political analysis. He also signed a $70000 deal with Penguin group for publishing two books. Though there is no proper estimate of Silver’s net worth, it is no surprise that it will be quite a significant amount owing to his blogs and publications.

At the conclusion, we can say for sure that Silver is no doubt a great statistician and journalist who is very expert in making political and sporting predictions. His rise to fame is also an iconic frame for the Gay fraternity. Though his predictions may turn out inaccurate, but we have to appreciate the effort that he put into place for developing his methods, such as PECOTA, which is not everyone’s cup of tea. While ending, we can only say that his ideas and skills are still relevant, and we would like to wish him the best for the future course of action.