Noise vs Bias

In the wake of the cut-throat US Presidential campaign, and the rise of the ‘fake news’ concept by Donald Trump, I had been looking for a good visual summary of what Nate Silver calls ‘the Signal and the Noise’. I stumbled by luck onto this HBR ‘accuracy’ visual whilst browsing their library and thought that it was a smart way to show these concepts.

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