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Nate Silver
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Nate Silver
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: January 13
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In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.
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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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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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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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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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Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.
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I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.
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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 actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.
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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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People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.
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Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.
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Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don't have any discipline in how they look at the world, and so it leads to a lot of bullshit, basically.
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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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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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Accountability doesn't mean apologizing.
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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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When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen
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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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