Nate Silver Quotes

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Nate Silver

Profession : Writer

Birth : January 13, 1978

Voters memories will fade some.

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When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.

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It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.

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You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.

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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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You get steely nerves playing poker.

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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

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A lot of the time nothing happens in a day.

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I'm a pro-horserace guy.

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On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.

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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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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 think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.

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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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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.

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If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.

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