All Nate Silver Quotes
- We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way. Calibrated
- You get steely nerves playing poker. Funny
- The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had… Circulated
- Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if… Actually One
- 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… Audience
- 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. Actually Good
- I think punditry serves no purpose. Punditry
- The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance,… All
- Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately. Boring
- All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to. All
- People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting. Attach
- Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things. Accuracy
- In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right. Build
- Voters memories will fade some. Fade
- A lot of the time nothing happens in a day. Day