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" We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that. "
Nate Silver
Living
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" People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting. "
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" Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken. "
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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 don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.' "
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" The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are. "
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" 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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" 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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" It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis. "
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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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" 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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" 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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