Analysts Quote by Nate Silver Download Open image “I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.” — Nate Silver ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Analysts Dozen Half Investing Kind Polling Space Thinking
Most analysts are SO SMART and have amazing ideas, but they can't convey their genius ideas to others. — Chip Heath Copy Share Image
In my time in Washington, I've watched congressmen, senators and their advisors allow similarly stark polling data to shape their calculus on countless occasions.… — Neera Tanden Copy Share Image
Polling itself, and polling analysis, have a margin of error - and a margin of interpretation; anyone who is too certain should not be… — Harry Enten Copy Share Image
The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
Most election analysts in the U.S. habitually confuse the sound of money talking with the voice of the people. — Thomas Ferguson Copy Share Image
In the past the analysts were the department you never saw. They were the nerds at school. You went to see the investment bankers… — Mark Getty Copy Share Image
Political analysts tend to overinterpret the results of isolated elections. — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
Analysts recommendations may not produce good results. In part this is due to the pressure placed on these analysts to recommend frequently rather than… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
And let me take one of the explanations most commonly given: Analysts were pressured to reach conclusions that would fit the political agenda of… — David Kay Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.' — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure. — Amy Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
Freud pointed out, in his Problem of Lay Analysis, that it is extremely unlikely that a young man who would throw the best years… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
In the corporate world, if you have analysts, due diligence, and no horse sense, you've just described hell. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
There was an analyst who came out the other day who's had a long track record of projecting presidential campaigns based on the economy… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst and I'm not an intellectual. — John Irving Copy Share Image
This is what analysts have calculated. It's a number that's out there and we're not arguing with it. — David Edward Kirk Copy Share Image
I go to an analyst not because I need to but because I choose to and maybe that's the difference. I don't think I… — Mary Tyler Moore Copy Share Image
I feel genuinely sorry for those who are so blinded by narrow partisanship that they cannot appreciate Limbaugh's energy, intelligence and satiric skill. They… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The correct attitude of the security analyst toward the stock market might well be that of a man toward his wife. He shouldn't pay… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image