Nate Silver Quotes

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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…
• 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.
• Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict…
• Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between what his characters…
• The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
• We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very good at it.
• One of the pervasive risks that we face in the information age, as I wrote in the introduction, is that even if the amount of…
• Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.
• Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don’t have any discipline in how they look at the world, and so it leads to…
• We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning.
• If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after a day when Mr. Obama…
• The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.
• I know it's cheaper to fund an op-ed columnist than a team of reporters, but I think it confuses the mission of what these great…
• To my friends, I’m kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight,
• New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.
• 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…
• We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
• Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.
• When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen
• Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

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