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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
Journalist
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Michigan
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Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.
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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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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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In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.
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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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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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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.
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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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Success makes you less intimidated by things.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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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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I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'
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People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
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We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
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