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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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.

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I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.

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It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.

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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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I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.

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Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.

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To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'

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People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.

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You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.

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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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Voters memories will fade some.

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If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.

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In science, progress is possible. In fact, if one believes in Bayes' theorem, scientific progress is inevitable as predictions are made and as beliefs are tested and refined.

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Under Bayes' theorem, no theory is perfect. Rather, it is a work in progress, always subject to further refinement and testing.

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...the ratings agencies' problem was in being unable or uninterested in appreciating the distinction between risk and uncertainty.

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A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our pe...

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

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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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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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The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.

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Author Bio

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