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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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Nate Silver
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: January 13
Journalist
Mathematician
Poker Player
Statistician
East Lansing
Michigan
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