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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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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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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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Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.
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The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
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I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
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