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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

#call #commitment #having #journalism #lot

Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken. ↗

— Nate Silver

#election #every #four #new #precedent

I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.' ↗

— Nate Silver

#behavior #experiment #i #observing #participating

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

#competition #data #discovered #i #like

If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy. ↗

— Nate Silver

#computer #had #i #like #looked

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

— Nate Silver

#become #kind #little #strange #symbol

Voters memories will fade some. ↗

— Nate Silver

#memories #some #voters #will

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

#high #improve #most #overcome #pitcher

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty. ↗

— Nate Silver

#comfortable #more #must #probability #uncertainty

When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen. ↗

— Nate Silver

#data #funny #funny things #happen #human