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Good Quotes by Nate Silver
- 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.
- 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,…
- 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.
- The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.
- 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…
- 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.
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