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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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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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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 have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
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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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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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People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.
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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 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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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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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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Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.
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A lot of things can't be modeled very well.
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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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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 think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.
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Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.
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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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Accountability doesn't mean apologizing.
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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