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Nate Silver
American
Writer
Born:
Jan 13
,
1978
Good
Lot
More
People
Think
You
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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.
Nate Silver
Time
You
People
Build
Believe
Tell
Kind
Rapport
More
Over
Audience
Up
Than
Oh
Different
Prefer
Them
Should
Your
Show
Show People
Different Things
Things
Here
The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.
Nate Silver
Good
Yourself
Key
Quantitative
Forecast
Making
Limiting
Information
There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.
Nate Silver
Unknown
Unknowns
Risk
Always
Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.
Nate Silver
You
Game
Tell
Any
Just
Poll
Much
Baseball
Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.
Nate Silver
You
Congress
Out
Percent
Voted
Know
Well
Office
Going
If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.
Nate Silver
Congress
President
TV
Major
Policy
Foreign
Foreign Policy
Gets
Event
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 personal point of view.
Nate Silver
Work
Truth
Commitment
Our
Object
Objectivity
Having
Point
Point Of View
Pursuing
Outside
Journalism
Toward
Call
Without
Lot
Personal
Personal Point
Wants
Them
Requires
View
Belief
I think punditry serves no purpose.
Nate Silver
Think
Purpose
Serve
I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.
Nate Silver
Politics
People
Guess
Like
Very
Blunt
Much
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
Mistake
Problem
Direction
Tend
Instance
Wrong
Miss
New
New Hampshire
Hampshire
Same
Same Direction
Polls
I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'
Nate Silver
Behavior
Somebody
Experiment
Think
Observing
Participating
Also
Predicting
Should
Who
All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.
Nate Silver
Time
Way
Possibly
About
More
Write
Stuff
Know
Than
Want
The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
Nate Silver
About
More
Economists
Economy
Most
Than
Public
Pessimistic
Even
To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'
Nate Silver
You
Hey
Minor
Like
Very
Celebrities
Celebrity
Just
Realize
Us
I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
Nate Silver
Bad
Bad Habits
Habits
Friends
Same
Success makes you less intimidated by things.
Nate Silver
Success
You
Intimidated
Makes
Less
Things
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