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77 quotes by Nate Silver

Nathaniel Read "Nate" Silver (born January 13, 1978) is an American statistician and writer who analyzes baseball (see sabermetrics) and elections (see psephology). He is currently the editor-in-chief of ESPN's FiveThirtyEight blog and a Special Correspondent for ABC News. Silver first gained public recognition for developing PECOTA, a system for forecasting the performance and career development of Major League Baseball players, which he sold...
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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 its entire print collection... →

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

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

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

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

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The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you... →

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You get steely nerves playing poker.

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When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The... →

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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.

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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.

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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

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We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

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