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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

#associate #capital #correlate #expertise #good

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

#answer #extent #find #know #making

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 must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty. ↗

— Nate Silver

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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

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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

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Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers. ↗

— Ron Silver

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But why should I run for office and lose what little influence I have? ↗

— Ron Silver

#influence #little #lose #office #run

Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs. ↗

— Carly Simon

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