Nate Silver Quotes

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Nate Silver

Profession : Writer

Birth : January 13, 1978

In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.

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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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Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.

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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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Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.

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All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.

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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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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

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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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Success makes you less intimidated by things.

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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 I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.

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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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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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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 have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.

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I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.

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There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.

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I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.

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