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To my friends, I’m kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight.

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Nate Silver
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: January 13
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Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.
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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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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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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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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
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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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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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I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
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Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don't have any discipline in how they look at the world, and so it leads to a lot of bullshit, basically.
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Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.
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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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People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.
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You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.
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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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