Nate Silver Quotes

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Nate Silver

Profession : Writer

Birth : January 13, 1978

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

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We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.

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We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.

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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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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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By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

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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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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.

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I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

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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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Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.

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Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.

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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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First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.

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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.

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I think punditry serves no purpose.

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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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