"The problem is that when polls are wrong,……" — Nate Silver
"The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake."
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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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