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In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.

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Nate Silver
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: January 13
Journalist
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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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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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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 don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.
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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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To my friends, I’m kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight.
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A lot of things can't be modeled very well.
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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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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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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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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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Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.
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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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I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.
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Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.
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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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If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.
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I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
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