Quotes by Nate Silver

Nate Silver

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.

Annoyed

Errors

Views

Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that’s what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent signal or noise

Data

Keys

Patterns

I don’t think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the ‘experiment.’

Behavior

Should

Thinking

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

Blunt

People

I have the same friends and the same bad habits.

Bad Habits

Habit

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.

Choices

Names

Quality

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

Problem

Really Great

Thinking

I know it’s cheaper to fund an op-ed columnist than a team of reporters, but I think it confuses the mission of what these great journalistic brands are about.

Columnists

Team

Thinking

I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them ‘oh, here’s what you should believe’ and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.

Believe

Different

People

I think punditry serves no purpose.

Purpose

Thinking

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Accountability

Acting

Agendas

Analysis

Annoyed

Apologizing

Appreciate

Arbitrary

Average

Bad Habits

Baseball

Behavior

Believe

Bits

Blunt

Book

Broken

Bullshit

Busy

Choices

Columnists

Comfortable

Competition

Computer

Congress

Curves

Data

Data Science

Degrees

Desire

Details

Different

Discipline

Doe

Dork

Economist

Economy

Ephemeral

Errors

Events

Evil

Example

Funny

Gay

Glory

Google

Habit

Half

Happens

Heart

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Quotes by Nate Silver

Nate Silver

Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that’s what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent signal or noise

I don’t think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the ‘experiment.’

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

I have the same friends and the same bad habits.

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.

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

I know it’s cheaper to fund an op-ed columnist than a team of reporters, but I think it confuses the mission of what these great journalistic brands are about.

I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them ‘oh, here’s what you should believe’ and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.

I think punditry serves no purpose.

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