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A lot of things can't be modeled very well.

Nate Silver

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Nate Silver
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: January 13
Journalist
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Poker Player
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Michigan
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The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
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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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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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If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.
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Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.
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I don't think you should limit what you read.
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People have different ways of interpreting history.
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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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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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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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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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I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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