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" Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him. "
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" All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to. "
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" Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome. "
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" You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects. "
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" If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy. "
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" We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty. "
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" I'm a pro-horserace guy. "
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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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" By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes. "
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" I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve. "
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" Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken. "
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" I don't think you should limit what you read. "
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" I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week. "
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" You get steely nerves playing poker. "
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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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" I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts. "
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Space
" In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it. "
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Lot
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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, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie. "
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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 myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though. "
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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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Light
Information
" I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over. "
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Like
Think
Feel
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" I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience. "
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" Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press. "
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" Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline. "
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