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

Nate Silver

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Nate Silver
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: January 13
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I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
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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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The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
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Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.
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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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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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People have different ways of interpreting history.
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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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If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.
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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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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.
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You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.
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Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.
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Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.
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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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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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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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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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