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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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Voters memories will fade some. ↗

— 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 are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that. ↗

— Nate Silver

#different #different ways #lives #living #more

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty. ↗

— 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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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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You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do. ↗

— Ron Silver

#awful #behavioral #body #body language #going

I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit. ↗

— Ron Silver

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