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

— Nate Silver

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

— Nate Silver

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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

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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. ↗

— Nate Silver

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People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is. ↗

— Nate Silver

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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. ↗

— Nate Silver

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

— Nate Silver

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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. ↗

— Nate Silver

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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. ↗

— Nate Silver

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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

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