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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…
• I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I…
• Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the…
• Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between…
• 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…
• One of the pervasive risks that we face in the information age, as I wrote in the introduction, is that even if…
• 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…
• 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…
• The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.

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