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" I've just always been a bit of a dork. "
Nate Silver
Just
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Been
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" Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press. "
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" 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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" We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that. "
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" You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast. "
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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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" Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things. "
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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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" In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it. "
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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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" Success makes you less intimidated by things. "
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" I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt. "
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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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" I think punditry serves no purpose. "
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" In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right. "
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" First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views. "
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Think
Political
" I'm a pro-horserace guy. "
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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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New
Maybe
" The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before. "
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Lot
Ideas
" 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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Fame
Internet
Kind
" A lot of the time nothing happens in a day. "
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Nothing
Lot
Day
" 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
" I don't think you should limit what you read. "
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Limit
You
Think
" You don't want to treat any one person as oracular. "
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Treat
Any
Want
" I have the same friends and the same bad habits. "
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Habits
Bad
Bad Habits
" 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
" The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are. "
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" The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information. "
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Yourself
Key
" We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty. "
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More
Uncertainty
" 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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Library
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