"The key to making a good forecast is……" — Nate Silver
"The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information."
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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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More Forecast Quotes
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one of 68 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up…
— Luke Bryan
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Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
— George Carlin
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Despite the forecast, live like it's Spring.
— Lilly Pulitzer
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Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
— Oswald Chambers
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It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.
— Mark Twain
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Weathermen merely forecast rain to keep everyone else off the golf course
— Larry David
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Tonight's forecast: DARK. Continued mostly dark tonight, turning to wildly scattered light in the morning
— George Carlin
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It is evident, therefore, that one of the most fundamental problems of psychology is that of investigating the laws of…
— Lewis Terman
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[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness,…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Why is the forecast so bland? Why instead of 'stormy' don't they just say the sea's 'a frothing maelstrom of…
— Jeremy Clarkson
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If you have to forecast, forecast often..
— Edgar Fiedler
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Champions know that success is inevitable, that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the…
— Michael J. Gelb
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