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Nate Silver

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Nate Silver
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: January 13
Journalist
Mathematician
Poker Player
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East Lansing
Michigan
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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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To my friends, I’m kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight.
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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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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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Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.
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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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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 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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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
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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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I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.
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Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.
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Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.
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Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.
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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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We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
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