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Nate Silver
American
January 13, 1978
Writer
Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.
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A lot of things can't be modeled very well.
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Lot
We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
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Living
If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.
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I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.
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People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.
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People
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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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Food
Really
Been
I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that.
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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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Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
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Way
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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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I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
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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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The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.
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Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie.
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Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline.
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