Nate Silver quotes - page 2

We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way. (Nate Silver)
I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.' View quote
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The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good at making predictions. View quote
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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. View quote
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy. View quote
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We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that. View quote
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It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis. View quote
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Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things. View quote
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In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it. View quote
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If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't. View quote
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A lot of things can't be modeled very well. (Nate Silver)
Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election. View quote
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When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right. View quote
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I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I think punditry serves no purpose. View quote
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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)
Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately. View quote
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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. View quote
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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are. View quote
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I have the same friends and the same bad habits. View quote
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