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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 don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'
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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 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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New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.
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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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Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.
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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 think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
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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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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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I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.
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Accountability doesn't mean apologizing.
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When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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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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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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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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If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.
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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 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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