Question: Does Nate Silver have knowledge of statistics?

Context articles: FiveThirtyEight
1952–53 Baltimore Bullets season
Nate Silver
Institut de la statistique du Québec
Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections
PECOTA
Trevor Hastie
Carl Bialik
Racial segregation in Atlanta
The Signal and the Noise

FiveThirtyEight, sometimes referred to as 538, is a website that focuses on opinion poll analysis, politics, economics, and sports blogging.
 The website, which takes its name from the number of electors in the United States electoral college, was founded on March 7, 2008, as a polling aggregation website with a blog created by analyst Nate Silver.
 In August 2010, the blog became a licensed feature of "The New York Times" online.
 It was renamed FiveThirtyEight: Nate Silver's Political Calculus.
 In July 2013, ESPN announced that it would become the owner of the FiveThirtyEight brand and site, and Silver was appointed as editor-in-chief.
 The ESPN-owned FiveThirtyEight began publication on March 17, 2014.
 In the ESPN era, the FiveThirtyEight blog has covered a broad spectrum of subjects including politics, sports, science, economics, and popular culture.
The 1952-53 NBA season was the Bullets' 6th season in the NBA.
 The team featured Hall of Fame center Don Barksdale.
 With a .229 winning percentage, the team was selected by Nate Silver as the worst team to have ever advanced to the post-season in the NBA, NFL, NHL, or MLB.
 The Bullets never again made the playoffs, and the franchise folded midway through the 1954-55 season.
Nathaniel Read Silver (born January 13, 1978) is an American statistician and writer who analyzes baseball (see sabermetrics) and elections (see psephology).
 He is the editor-in-chief of ESPN's "FiveThirtyEight" and a Special Correspondent for ABC News.
 Silver first gained public recognition for developing PECOTA, a system for forecasting the performance and career development of Major League Baseball players, which he sold to and then managed for Baseball Prospectus from 2003 to 2009.
The Institut de la statistique du Québec (or Quebec Statistical Institute in translation) is the governmental statistics agency of Quebec.
 It is responsible for producing, analyzing, and publishing official statistics to enhance knowledge, discussion and decision-making.
 The 1998 law that established it (with effect on April 1, 1999) states that it can also be referred to as Statistique Québec.
Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections is a web site that provides tables, graphs, and maps for presidential (1789–present), senatorial (1990 and onwards), and gubernatorial (1990 and onwards) elections.
 Data include candidates, parties, popular and electoral vote totals, and voter turnout.
 County-level data is available for many years, and all data are compiled from official sources.
 Leip's Atlas has been cited as a "preferred source for election results" by statistician and political pundit Nate Silver.
PECOTA, an acronym for "Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm", is a sabermetric system for forecasting Major League Baseball player performance.
 The word is a backronym based on the name of journeyman major league player Bill Pecota, who, with a lifetime batting average of .249, is perhaps representative of the typical PECOTA entry.
 PECOTA was developed by Nate Silver in 2002–2003 and introduced to the public in the book "Baseball Prospectus 2003".
 Baseball Prospectus (BP) has owned PECOTA since 2003; Silver managed PECOTA from 2003 to 2009.
 He was responsible for the PECOTA projections for the 2003–2009 baseball seasons.
 Beginning in Spring 2009, BP assumed responsibility for producing the annual forecasts.
 The first baseball season for which Silver played no role in producing the PECOTA projections was 2010.
Trevor John Hastie (born 27 June 1953) is an American statistician and computer scientist.
 He is currently serving as the John A. Overdeck Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Professor of Statistics at the Stanford University.
 Hastie is known for his contributions to applied statistics, especially in the field of machine learning, data mining, and bioinformatics.
 He has authored several popular books in statistical learning, including "The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction".
 Hastie has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited Author in Mathematics by the ISI Web of Knowledge.
Carl Bialik is an American journalist, who on February 6, 2017, was named Data Science Editor of Yelp, working on Yelpblog.
 Prior to this, Bialik was known for his work for "The Wall Street Journal's" web site, and the paper itself.
 He is also a co-founder of the growing online-only "Gelf Magazine".
 In late 2013, Bialik was hired by Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com.
Racial segregation in Atlanta has known main phases after the freeing of the slaves in 1865: a period of relative integration of businesses and residences; Jim Crow laws and official residential and de facto business segregation after the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906; blockbusting and black residential expansion starting in the 1950s; and gradual integration from the late 1960s onwards.
 A recent study conducted by Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com, found that Atlanta was the second most segregated city in the U.S. and the most segregated in the South.
The Signal and the Noise : Why Most Predictions Fail – but Some Don't (alternatively stylized as The Signal and the Noise : Why So Many Predictions Fail – but Some Don't) is a 2012 book by Nate Silver detailing the art of using probability and statistics as applied to real-world circumstances.
 The book includes richly detailed case studies from baseball, elections, climate change, the financial crash, poker, and weather forecasting.