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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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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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When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen
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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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I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.
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The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
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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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Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.
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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 think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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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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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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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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Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.
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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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Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.
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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 have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.
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