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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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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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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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Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.
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Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.
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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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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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First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.
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I know it's cheaper to fund an op-ed columnist than a team of reporters, but I think it confuses the mission of what these great journalistic brands are about.
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The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
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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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New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.
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A lot of things can't be modeled very well.
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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'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
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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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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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We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
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