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" Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken. "
Nate Silver
New
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" I have the same friends and the same bad habits. "
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" Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" A lot of things can't be modeled very well. "
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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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" 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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" When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake. "
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" If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring. "
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Yourself
Boring
Data
" We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup. "
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World
Beats
" A lot of the time nothing happens in a day. "
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Lot
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" It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis. "
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Kind
Little
Strange
" I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics. "
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Competition
Looking
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" I'm a pro-horserace guy. "
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Guy
" First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views. "
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Politics
Think
Political
" 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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Know
Light
Information
" Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately. "
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Elections
Unfortunately
Boring
" I've just always been a bit of a dork. "
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Just
Always
Been
" In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right. "
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Politics
Right
Build
" 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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Become
Transcend
Power
" 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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Better
Good
Direction
" 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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Tough
Improve
Walk
" Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election. "
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Still
Race
Every
" Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge. "
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Noise
Both
Knowledge
" If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it. "
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Think
Reason
Glory
" I think punditry serves no purpose. "
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Purpose
I Think
Think
" Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public. "
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Congress
Get
Opportunities
" Success makes you less intimidated by things. "
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