Nate Silver Quotes
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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.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.
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There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.
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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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I've just always been a bit of a dork.
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By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.
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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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We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.
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I don't think you should limit what you read.
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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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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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Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
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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'm a pro-horserace guy.
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When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.
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I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.
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The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake.
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We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
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I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'
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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'm not trying to do anything too tricky.