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" Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election. "
Nate Silver
Still
Race
Every
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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. "
Nate Silver
Now
Skill
Real
" Voters memories will fade some. "
Nate Silver
Some
Fade
Memories
" 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. "
Nate Silver
Human
Sure
Time
" If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy. "
Nate Silver
Busy
Computer
Looked
" 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. "
Nate Silver
Know
Light
Information
" Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things. "
Nate Silver
Accuracy
Different
Two
" People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them. "
Nate Silver
Information
Happier
People
" 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. "
Nate Silver
Yourself
Boring
Data
" If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot. "
Nate Silver
Representative
You
Get
" You get steely nerves playing poker. "
Nate Silver
Nerves
Poker
You
" We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty. "
Nate Silver
Become
More
Uncertainty
" I'm a pro-horserace guy. "
Nate Silver
Guy
" 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. "
Nate Silver
Where
Lot
Ideas
" Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken. "
Nate Silver
New
Years
Some
" A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news. "
Nate Silver
Entertainment
Just
News
" Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press. "
Nate Silver
Books
Before
Luxury
" When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen. "
Nate Silver
Human
Happen
Funny
" I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs. "
Nate Silver
I Think
Journal
Lot
" 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. "
Nate Silver
People
Acting
You
" It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis. "
Nate Silver
Kind
Little
Strange
" I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation. "
Nate Silver
Need
Vacation
American
" People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is. "
Nate Silver
Success Is
People
Appreciate
" There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns. "
Nate Silver
Unknowns
Unknown
Always
" We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that. "
Nate Silver
Living
You
Online
" Success makes you less intimidated by things. "
Nate Silver
Things
You
Intimidated
" We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way. "
Nate Silver
Right
Way
Want
" The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information. "
Nate Silver
Making
Yourself
Key
" By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes. "
Nate Silver
Speed
You
Up
" 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. "
Nate Silver
Better
Good
Direction
" Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak. "
Nate Silver
Much
Cold
Hot