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" I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.' "
Nate Silver
Experiment
Think
Behavior
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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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" I'm not trying to do anything too tricky. "
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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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" Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense. "
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" We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty. "
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" We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that. "
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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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" I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts. "
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" Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election. "
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" If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy. "
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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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" If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't. "
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Foreign Policy
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" There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns. "
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" I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have. "
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" You get steely nerves playing poker. "
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" If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it. "
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" To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.' "
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You
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" 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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Looking
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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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Now
" Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately. "
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Unfortunately
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" A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news. "
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" Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things. "
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" In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it. "
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Lot
" First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views. "
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Political
" People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is. "
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" The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are. "
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Most
" People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting. "
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" A lot of things can't be modeled very well. "
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" I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs. "
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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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