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Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

Nate Silver

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Nate Silver
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: January 13
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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 think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don't have any discipline in how they look at the world, and so it leads to a lot of bullshit, basically.
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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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People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.
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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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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
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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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Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.
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I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
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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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We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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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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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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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
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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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Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.
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