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" I'm a pro-horserace guy. "
Nate Silver
Guy
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" In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it. "
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" Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately. "
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" Voters memories will fade some. "
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" The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are. "
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" I don't think you should limit what you read. "
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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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Internet
Kind
" It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis. "
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" Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak. "
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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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Predict
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You
" I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week. "
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New York
New
Maybe
" 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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Time
Know
More
" I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation. "
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Need
Vacation
American
" Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public. "
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Congress
Get
Opportunities
" You don't want to treat any one person as oracular. "
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Treat
Any
Want
" When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen. "
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Human
Happen
Funny
" A lot of things can't be modeled very well. "
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Very
Modeled
Lot
" We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup. "
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Where
World
Beats
" People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is. "
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Success Is
People
Appreciate
" I'm not trying to do anything too tricky. "
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Anything
Trying
Tricky
" 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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People
Acting
You
" We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty. "
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Become
More
Uncertainty
" Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press. "
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Books
Before
Luxury
" People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them. "
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Information
Happier
People
" Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election. "
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Still
Race
Every
" 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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You
Time
People
" A lot of the time nothing happens in a day. "
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Nothing
Lot
Day
" 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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Myself
Work
Play
" We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that. "
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Living
You
Online
" Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office. "
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Well
You
Know
" 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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Truth
Commitment
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