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I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.

Nate Silver

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Nate Silver
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: January 13
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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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I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
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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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Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.
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Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.
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The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
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Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.
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If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.
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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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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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To my friends, I’m kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight.
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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
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Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.
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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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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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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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Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.
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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 don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'
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