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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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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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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 a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.
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Success makes you less intimidated by things.
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In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.
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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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Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.
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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.
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Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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I know it's cheaper to fund an op-ed columnist than a team of reporters, but I think it confuses the mission of what these great journalistic brands are about.
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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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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.
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The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
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You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.
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