Nate Silver Quotes
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If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.
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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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First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.
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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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Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.
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The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good at making predictions.
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The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.
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In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.
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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that.
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
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Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.
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We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.
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People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.
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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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Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.
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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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When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.
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To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'
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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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A lot of the time nothing happens in a day.
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Voters memories will fade some.
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A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.