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Nate Silver
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: January 13
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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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Accountability doesn't mean apologizing.
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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 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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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in it's entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or thirteen-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next 'Twilight' movie.
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If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after a day when Mr. Obama leads 19 out of 20 swing-state polls, then you should abandon the pretense that your goal is to inform rather than entertain the public.
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People have different ways of interpreting history.
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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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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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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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We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
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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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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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If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.
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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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Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.
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When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen
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You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.
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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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