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In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right. ↗

— 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 gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them. ↗

— Nate Silver

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Success makes you less intimidated by things. ↗

— Nate Silver

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I would rather just do the things I want to do. ↗

— Stanley Tucci

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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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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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Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things. ↗

— Nate Silver

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

— 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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