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Success makes you less intimidated by things.

Nate Silver

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Nate Silver
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: January 13
Journalist
Mathematician
Poker Player
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East Lansing
Michigan
Nathaniel Read Silver
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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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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.
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New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.
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All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.
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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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Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.
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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'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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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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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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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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People have different ways of interpreting history.
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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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Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.
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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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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.
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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 think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.
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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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