Author

Nate Silver

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“I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.”— Nate Silver
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“When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.”— Nate Silver
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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.”— Nate Silver
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“Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.”— Nate Silver
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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
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“By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.”— Nate Silver
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“In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.”— Nate Silver
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“First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.”— Nate Silver
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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.”— Nate Silver
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“I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.”— Nate Silver
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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.”— Nate Silver
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“Success makes you less intimidated by things.”— Nate Silver
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“People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.”— Nate Silver
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“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.”— Nate Silver