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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.

Nate Silver

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Nate Silver
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: January 13
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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
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The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
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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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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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Success makes you less intimidated by things.
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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 get steely nerves playing poker.
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Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.
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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.
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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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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 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 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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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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People have different ways of interpreting history.
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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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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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