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Nate Silver
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: January 13
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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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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've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
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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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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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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 don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'
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Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.
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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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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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A lot of things can't be modeled very well.
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In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.
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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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New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.
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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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Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.
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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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Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.
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Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline.
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