"The signal is the truth. The noise is……" — Nate Silver

The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from… - Nate Silver

"The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth."

— Nate Silver

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75 Quotes by Nate Silver

Nate Silver has 75 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold…
I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's…
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot…
Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the…
We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very…
One of the pervasive risks that we face in the information age, as I wrote in the introduction, is that…
Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.
Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don’t have any discipline in how they look at the world, and…
We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning.
If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after…
The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.
I know it's cheaper to fund an op-ed columnist than a team of reporters, but I think it confuses the…

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More Distracts Quotes

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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed… — Teresa of Avila
The great corrupter of public man is the ego.... Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem. — Dean Acheson
Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' . . . he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this… — Elmore Leonard
What distracts me from my reality is bigfoot. They are my celebrities. — Megan Fox
There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A. — Will Smith
As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own… — John F. Kennedy
I can't emphasize this idea enough. Getting involved with your collaborator's problems almost always distracts you from your own. That… — Twyla Tharp
I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind… — Edvard Munch
I think most American churchgoers are the soil that chokes the seed because of all the thorns. Thorns are anything that… — Francis Chan
Working is hard and distracts from having fun. — Orson Scott Card
All things happen in their proper time. Everything in life happens in the time allocated for it. Don't waste energy… — James Van Praagh
As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For… — Alexander Borodin

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