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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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.

Nate Silver

Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.

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Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

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There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.

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I've just always been a bit of a dork.

Nate Silver

Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.

Nate Silver

Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

Nate Silver

I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.

Nate Silver

You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.

Nate Silver

On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.

Nate Silver

In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.

Nate Silver

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

People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.

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We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.

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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

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

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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.

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I don't think you should limit what you read.

Nate Silver

A lot of things can't be modeled very well.

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If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.

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I think punditry serves no purpose.

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Author Bio

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