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If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't. ↗

— Nate Silver

#event #foreign #foreign policy #gets #major

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

— Nate Silver

#representative #sample #snapshot #taking #won

In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it. ↗

— Nate Silver

#creative #data #lot #more #terrific

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

#average #data #more #numbers #people

People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it. ↗

— Nate Silver

#good #how #information #intuitive #know

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

— Nate Silver

#happier #implies #information #outlook #people

Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election. ↗

— Nate Silver

#every #race #still

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

— Nate Silver

#good #information #key #limiting #making

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

#celebrity #hey #just #like #minor