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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.

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Nate Silver
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: January 13
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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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Accountability doesn't mean apologizing.
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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 actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
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Success makes you less intimidated by things.
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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
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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 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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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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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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