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Nate Silver

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Nate Silver
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: January 13
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I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.
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If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after a day when Mr. Obama leads 19 out of 20 swing-state polls, then you should abandon the pretense that your goal is to inform rather than entertain the public.
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In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.
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I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
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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.
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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.
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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.
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Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.
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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.
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Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.
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I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'
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First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.
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I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though.
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.
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Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
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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.
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People have different ways of interpreting history.
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Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.
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