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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 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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Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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People have different ways of interpreting history.
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To my friends, I’m kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight.
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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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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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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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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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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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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
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Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.
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Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.
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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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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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Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.
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A lot of things can't be modeled very well.
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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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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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