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Nate Silver
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Nate Silver
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: January 13
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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.
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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.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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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 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.
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The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
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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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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen
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You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.
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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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To my friends, I’m kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight.
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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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Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.
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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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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.
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Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.
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