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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
Journalist
Mathematician
Poker Player
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Michigan
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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
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In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.
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Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.
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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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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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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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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.
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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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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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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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I don't think you should limit what you read.
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People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.
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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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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
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Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.
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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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I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
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