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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

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

— Nate Silver

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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. ↗

— Nate Silver

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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot. ↗

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

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

— 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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