All Nate Silver Quotes
- Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise. Accentuate
- If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy. Busy
- If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot. Inspirational
- People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is. Appreciate
- Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much. Any
- A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity… Belief
- A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news. Entertainment
- First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views. All
- 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… Agenda
- Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election. Determinant
- 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… Acting
- I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.' Behavior
- I have the same friends and the same bad habits. Bad
- I've just always been a bit of a dork. Been
- On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves. Average
- Success makes you less intimidated by things. Inspirational
- The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are. Bearish
- There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns. Inspirational
- 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… Amount
- 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'… Achieve