"On average, people should be more skeptical when……" — Nate Silver
"On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves."
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75 Quotes by Nate Silver
Nate Silver has 75 quotes on this site.
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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 average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
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For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living…
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I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.
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There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
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I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in…
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I will barnstorm American living rooms. Mainstream media will be unable to ignore me, but more importantly they will be…
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The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all…
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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done…
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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or…
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Just to keep up with population growth, on average our economy needs to be adding about 125,000 jobs per month.
— Bob Beauprez
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