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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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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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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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New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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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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A lot of things can't be modeled very well.
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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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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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Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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Success makes you less intimidated by things.
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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
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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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I don't think you should limit what you read.
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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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People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
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