All Nate Silver Quotes
- 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,… All
- Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak. Cold
- Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press. Book
- By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes. Artificially
- Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him. Applied
- Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge. Both
- Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken. Broken
- I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week. Actually Buy
- I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation. American
- I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs. Articles
- I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts. Analyst
- I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil. Evil
- I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve. Actually Deserve
- If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it. Forecast
- In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it. Baseball
- People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them. Gravitate
- The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information. Forecast
- Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome. Area
- We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that. Capture
- We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty. Comfortable