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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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I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
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You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects.
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People have different ways of interpreting history.
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Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.
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Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.
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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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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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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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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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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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I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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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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The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times. And so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.
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Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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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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