Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.
Nate Silver
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Still
Every
Determinant
Election
Race
Stills
More quotes by Nate Silver
The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
Nate Silver
The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
Nate Silver
Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.
Nate Silver
We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
Nate Silver
Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.
Nate Silver
I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
Nate Silver
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
Nate Silver
When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen
Nate Silver
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
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
People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
Nate Silver
New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.
Nate Silver
One of the pervasive risks that we face in the information age, as I wrote in the introduction, is that even if the amount of knowledge in the world is increasing, the gap between what we know and what we think we know may be widening.
Nate Silver
People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
Nate Silver
Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in it's entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or thirteen-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next 'Twilight' movie.
Nate Silver
Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
Nate Silver
Success makes you less intimidated by things.
Nate Silver
I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
Nate Silver
To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
Nate Silver
I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
Nate Silver