Nate Silver quotes

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes. (Nate Silver)

We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.

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A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.

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First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.

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Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in it's entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or thirteen-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next 'Twilight' movie.

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Since December 2015, there have 10 incidents that killed 10 or more people. That's more than there was in 30 years between 1982 and 2011. And five of the 10 deadliest mass shootings in modern American history have all happened in the last five years.

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Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.

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People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.

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I don't think you should limit what you read.

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We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week. (Nate Silver)

If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.

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You get steely nerves playing poker.

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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

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A lot of the time nothing happens in a day.

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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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The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.

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We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.

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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press. (Nate Silver)

Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.

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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.

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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

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You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.

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Nate Silver

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Occupation: American Statistician
Born: January 13, 1978
Quotes count: 77
Wikipedia: Nate Silver

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