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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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Nate Silver
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: January 13
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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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Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
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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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To my friends, I’m kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight.
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Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.
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Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.
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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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I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'
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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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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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People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.
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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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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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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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