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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
Mathematician
Poker Player
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East Lansing
Michigan
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To my friends, I’m kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight.
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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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The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
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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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Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
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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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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 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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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
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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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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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