"Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both……" — Nate Silver
"Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge."
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75 Quotes by Nate Silver
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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…
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I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's…
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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot…
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Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the…
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The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
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We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very…
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One of the pervasive risks that we face in the information age, as I wrote in the introduction, is that…
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Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.
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Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don’t have any discipline in how they look at the world, and…
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We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning.
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If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after…
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The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the…
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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the…
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is…
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That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world,…
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