Nate Silver Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.”

“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.”

“On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.”

“Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.”

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

“Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.”

“We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.”

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

“I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.”

“Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.”