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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
Nathaniel Read Silver
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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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A lot of things can't be modeled very well.
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You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.
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Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.
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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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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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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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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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Accountability doesn't mean apologizing.
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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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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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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
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We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
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The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
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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 don't think you should limit what you read.
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Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.
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I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
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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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