Nate Silver Quotes - Page 3

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• Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Race

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• I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.

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  Thinking, Problem, Really Great

  "Nate Silver on His Hollywood Future and 'Moneyball'-ing Box Office". Interview with Daniel Miller, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 14, 2012.

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• I don't think you should limit what you read.

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  Thinking, Limits, Should

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• 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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  Writing, Want, Stuff

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• A lot of things can't be modeled very well.

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  Wells

  "Hit political blogger Nate Silver on future of predictive modeling". Interview with David K. Randall, www.reuters.com. November 9, 2012.

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• To my friends, I’m kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight.

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  Gay, Kind, Sexually

  "Nate Silver: Person of the Year". Interview with Aaron Hicklin, www.out.com. December 18, 2012.

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• Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.

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  Baseball, Games, Polls

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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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  Doe, Symbolic, Deserve

  "Nate Silver: it's the numbers, stupid" by Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2012.

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• I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.

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  Views, Evil, Roles

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• I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.

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  Thinking, Space, Half

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• I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.

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  Thinking, Should, Articles

  Twitter post from Oct 1, 2012

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• I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.

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  Vacation, Needs, American Food

  "Nate Silver on His Hollywood Future and 'Moneyball'-ing Box Office" by Daniel Miller, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 14, 2012.

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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 York, Paper, Week

  "Talking Shop: Nate Silver". Interview with Megan Garber, archives.cjr.org. November 11, 2008.

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• Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.

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  Years, Broken, Presidential

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• Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.

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  Believe, Omen

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• Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

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  Book, Luxury, Printing

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• Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.

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  Race, Election, Stills

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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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  Cartoon, Analysis, Onions

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• I've just always been a bit of a dork.

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  Dork, Bits

  "Nate Silver: it's the numbers, stupid" by Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2012.

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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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  Thinking, Behavior, Should

  "NATE SILVER: As Tempting As It Would Be To 'Drop The Mic' And Leave A Winner, I'll Be Back In 2014 And 2016" by Walter Hickey, www.businessinsider.com. November 14, 2012.

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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.

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  Commitment, Views, Objectivity

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• If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.

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  Thinking, Yesterday, Glory

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• In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.

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  Baseball, Data, Creative

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• 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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  Overcoming, Rooms, Tough

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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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  Baseball, Football, Play

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