Belief Quote by Nate Silver

Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent…

— Nate Silver

Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.

— Nate Silver

“These partisan beliefs can upset the equation in which more information will bring us closer to the truth. A recent study in Nature found…

— Nate Silver

I have the same friends and the same bad habits.

— Nate Silver

I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.

— Nate Silver

The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

— Nate Silver

I don't think you should limit what you read.

— Nate Silver

“But forecasters often resist considering these out-of-sample problems. When we expand our sample to include events further apart from us in time and space,…

— Nate Silver

In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

— Nate Silver

Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.

— Nate Silver

The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.

— Nate Silver

To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'

— Nate Silver