Quotes by Nate Silver

About Nate Silver:

Nathaniel Read is an American statistician and writer who analyzes baseball (see sabermetrics) and elections (see psephology). He is currently the editor-in-chief of ESPN's FiveThirtyEight blog and a Special Correspondent for ABC News. Silver first gained public recognition for developing PECOTA, a system for forecasting the performance and career development of Major League Baseball players, which he sold to and then managed for Baseball Prospectus from 2003 to 2009.
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Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.

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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

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When we advance more confident claims and they fail to come to fruition, this constitutes much more powerful evidence against our hypothesis. We can't really blame anyone for losing faith when this occurs

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Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.

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Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.

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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.

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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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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.

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Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.

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

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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...

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We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

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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.

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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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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

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We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.

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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.

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When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.

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You get steely nerves playing poker.

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Author Bio

  • NameNate Silver
  • DescriptionAmerican statistician and writer
  • BornJanuary 13, 1978
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Statistician