Quote

If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring.

Nate Silver

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Nate Silver
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: January 13
Journalist
Mathematician
Poker Player
Statistician
East Lansing
Michigan
Nathaniel Read Silver
Nathaniel Read Nate Silver
Agendas
Keeping
Data
Fit
Boring
Bubble
Watching
Fits
Gets
Bubbles
Looking
Agenda

More quotes by Nate Silver

Image
Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.
Nate Silver
Image
Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.
Nate Silver
Image
People have different ways of interpreting history.
Nate Silver
Image
New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.
Nate Silver
Image
I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
Nate Silver
Image
The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times. And so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.
Nate Silver
Image
The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
Nate Silver
Image
I know it's cheaper to fund an op-ed columnist than a team of reporters, but I think it confuses the mission of what these great journalistic brands are about.
Nate Silver
Image
When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen
Nate Silver
Image
You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.
Nate Silver
Image
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
Nate Silver
Image
Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don't have any discipline in how they look at the world, and so it leads to a lot of bullshit, basically.
Nate Silver
Image
I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
Nate Silver
Image
I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
Nate Silver
Image
I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
Nate Silver
Image
We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
Nate Silver
Image
I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
Nate Silver
Image
Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.
Nate Silver
Image
You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects.
Nate Silver
Image
Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.
Nate Silver