Nate Silver Quotes - Page 3

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• People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

  Nate Silver

  People, Appreciate, Ephemeral

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• 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

  Names, Choices, Quality

  "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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• All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.

  Nate Silver

  Writing, Want, Stuff

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• Expert estimates of probability are often off by factors of hundreds or
  thousands. [...] I used to be annoyed when the margin of error was high in
  a forecasting model that I might put together. Now I view it as perhaps the
  single most important piece of information that a forecaster provides. When
  we publish a forecast on FiveThirtyEight, I go to great lengths to document
  the uncertainty attached to it, even if the uncertainty is sufficiently
  large that the forecast won't make for punchy headlines.

  Nate Silver

  Views, Errors, Annoyed

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• You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.

  Nate Silver

  Want, Treats, Persons

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

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• It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.

  Nate Silver

  Analysis, Littles, Strange

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• Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

  Nate Silver

  Election, Boring, Midterms

  "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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• I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

  Nate Silver

  Thinking, People, Feels

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• I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.

  Nate Silver

  Trying, Tricky

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• If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.

  Nate Silver

  President, Events, Tvs

  "What's The Electoral Impact Of The Debt Debate?". "All Things Considered" with Michele Morris, www.npr.org. August 2, 2011.

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• I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

  Nate Silver

  People, Blunt

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• The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake.

  Nate Silver

  Mistake, Missing, Problem

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

  Nate Silver

  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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• Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.

  Nate Silver

  Opportunity, Remember, Congress

  "What's The Electoral Impact Of The Debt Debate?". "All Things Considered" with Michele Morris, www.npr.org. August 2, 2011.

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• A lot of the time nothing happens in a day.

  Nate Silver

  Happens, Things Happen

  "NATE SILVER TO JON STEWART: 'People Are Too Hyper About The Polls'" by Grace Wyler, www.businessinsider.com. October 18, 2012.

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

  Nate Silver

  Thinking, Limits, Should

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

  Nate Silver

  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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• Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.

  Nate Silver

  Political, Doe, Noise

  Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.48, Penguin

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

  Nate Silver

  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.

  Nate Silver

  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.

  Nate Silver

  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.

  Nate Silver

  Years, Broken, Presidential

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

  Nate Silver

  Believe, Omen

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

  Nate Silver

  Book, Luxury, Printing

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• Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.

  Nate Silver

  Hot, Too Much, Way

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