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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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Poker Player
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East Lansing
Michigan
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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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To my friends, I’m kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight.
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Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.
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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 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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First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.
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