Nate Silver Quotes
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I've just always been a bit of a dork.
— Nate Silver
Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.
— Nate Silver
New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.
— Nate Silver
We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that.
— Nate Silver
I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.
— Nate Silver
Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.
— Nate Silver
Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.
— Nate Silver
Sometimes the only solution when the data is very noisy - is to focus more on process than on results.
— Nate Silver
First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.
— Nate Silver
I'm a pro-horserace guy.
— Nate Silver
The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.
— Nate Silver
To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'
— Nate Silver
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.
— Nate Silver
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
— Nate Silver
Accountability doesn't mean apologizing.
— Nate Silver
I don't think you should limit what you read.
— Nate Silver
If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
— Nate Silver
The litmus test for whether you are a competent forecaster is if more information makes your predictions better.
— Nate Silver
The more interviews that an expert had done with the press, Tetlock found, the worse his predictions tended to be.
— Nate Silver
Success makes you less intimidated by things.
— Nate Silver
You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.
— Nate Silver
Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.
— Nate Silver
I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'
— Nate Silver
A lot of the time nothing happens in a day.
— Nate Silver
Herd immunity - the biological equivalent of a firewall in which the disease has too few opportunities to spread and dies out.
— Nate Silver
The story the data tells us is often the one we'd like to hear, and we usually make sure that it has a happy ending.
— Nate Silver
We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.
— Nate Silver
Data Is Useless Without Context
— Nate Silver
Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
— Nate Silver
Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.
— Nate Silver
We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning.
— Nate Silver
There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.
— Nate Silver
All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.
— Nate Silver
I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
— Nate Silver
By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.
— Nate Silver
We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
— Nate Silver
Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.
— Nate Silver
You get steely nerves playing poker.
— Nate Silver
If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.
— Nate Silver
I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
— Nate Silver
If there is a mutual distrust between the weather forecaster and the public, the public may not listen when they need to most.
— Nate Silver
Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.
— Nate Silver
A lot of things can't be modeled very well.
— Nate Silver
I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
— Nate Silver
In the 1990s, economists predicted only 2 of the 60 recessions around the world a year ahead of time.
— Nate Silver
I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
— Nate Silver
People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
— Nate Silver
Voters memories will fade some.
— Nate Silver
We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things - and we aren't very good at it.
— Nate Silver
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.
— Nate Silver
People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.
— Nate Silver
Nate Silver is now forecasting Oscar winners. The only area of life in which he has no expertise, ironically, is life itself.
— Norman Chad
If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.
— Nate Silver
The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
— Nate Silver
Even if you fly twenty times per year, you are about twice as likely to be struck by lightning.
— Nate Silver
I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
— Nate Silver