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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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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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New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.
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Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.
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We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
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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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The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
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Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
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In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.
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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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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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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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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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People have different ways of interpreting history.
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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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Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen
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