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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
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Michigan
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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 there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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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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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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Accountability doesn't mean apologizing.
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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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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 have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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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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Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.
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People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.
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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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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
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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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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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Success makes you less intimidated by things.
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