10 Signs You Are in A Toxic Relationship With Nate Silver
2 min readNov 4, 2020
- You Keep Breaking Up and Getting Back Together: You’ve been “on again/off again” with him for over a decade, ever since he started fivethirtyeight.com. Four years ago you dropped him, saying “OMG, that jerk was so wrong” and swore you’d never go back. But alas, here you are again.
- Obsessing: You check his social media before bed and then have trouble sleeping because you are so nervous about how tight the race is in Georgia.
- Your Friends Are Sick Of Your Obsessing: At first your friends were excited to gush with you. But now they’ve seen how obsessed you are and they will not tolerate your sharing any more articles about the South Carolina Senate race.
- Inability To Be Alone During The Holidays: It is just too devastating to bear the thought of being alone while everyone else (you are sure) is joyously spending World Statistics Day (October 20th) knowing which way Nevada might break.
- Feelings of Fear: It’s good to feel excitement, but if your partner makes you feel afraid, the relationship is toxic. You feel excited sometimes (like when Nate says Biden has an 85% chance of winning) but you feel terrified when he reminds you that a 15% chance for Trump is “not nothing.”
- Making Major Life Changes For The Other Person: He’s never explicitly asked you to move, but you’ve definitely considered relocating to a swing state.
- Gaslighting: Having your reality challenged can make you feel crazy and…
