Nate Silver Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.”

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

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

“People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.”

“Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline.”

“I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.”

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

“A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.”

“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.”

“A lot of the time nothing happens in a day.”