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" I don't think you should limit what you read. "
Nate Silver
Limit
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Think
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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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" 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 Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there. "
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" The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good at making predictions. "
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" We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup. "
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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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" I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being. "
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" I think punditry serves no purpose. "
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" There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns. "
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" When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen. "
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" You don't want to treat any one person as oracular. "
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" Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office. "
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" A lot of things can't be modeled very well. "
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" In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right. "
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" People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting. "
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" Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately. "
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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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" 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. "
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Real
" 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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" Voters memories will fade some. "
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" We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way. "
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" Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press. "
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" If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot. "
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" Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge. "
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" A lot of the time nothing happens in a day. "
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Nothing
Lot
Day
" I've just always been a bit of a dork. "
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Always
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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 get steely nerves playing poker. "
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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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" The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same 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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