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" Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much. "

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" In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it. "

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

" A lot of the time nothing happens in a day. "

" Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things. "

" I have the same friends and the same bad habits. "

" You get steely nerves playing poker. "

" I'm not trying to do anything too tricky. "

" I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt. "

" We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that. "

" 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. "

" When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen. "

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

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

" People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting. "

" There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns. "

" Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public. "

" I'm a pro-horserace guy. "

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

" On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves. "

" Voters memories will fade some. "

" I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs. "

" Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election. "

" 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. "

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

" A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news. "

" When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake. "

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

" 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. "

" 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, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie. "