First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time,… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
“These partisan beliefs can upset the equation in which more information will bring us closer to the truth. A recent study in Nature found… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
“But forecasters often resist considering these out-of-sample problems. When we expand our sample to include events further apart from us in time and space,… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.' — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
