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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
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Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.
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The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
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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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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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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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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.
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Accountability doesn't mean apologizing.
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I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.
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You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.
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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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