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I don't think you should limit what you read.

Nate Silver

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Nate Silver
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: January 13
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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 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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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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We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
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I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.
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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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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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