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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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. ...

Nate Silver

The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good at making predictions.

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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.

Nate Silver

You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects.

Nate Silver

When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.

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When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.

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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

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We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

Nate Silver

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

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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.

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All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.

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A lot of the time nothing happens in a day.

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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.

Nate Silver

Success makes you less intimidated by things.

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People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

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First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.

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I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

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

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In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

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I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though.

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Author Bio

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