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We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.

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Nate Silver
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: January 13
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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've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
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I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.
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Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.
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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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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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