Nate Silver Quotes

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Nate Silver

Profession : Writer

Birth : January 13, 1978

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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Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.

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In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

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People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

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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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You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.

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I've just always been a bit of a dork.

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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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People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.

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Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie.

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I don't think you should limit what you read.

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If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring.

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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.

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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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You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects.

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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.

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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

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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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A lot of things can't be modeled very well.

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