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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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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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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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Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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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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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
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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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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
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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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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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A lot of things can't be modeled very well.
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To my friends, I’m kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight.
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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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I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
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Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.
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I don't think you should limit what you read.
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People have different ways of interpreting history.
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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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New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.
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