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Nate Silver Quotes

American - Writer | January 13, 1978 -

Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.

Cold Too Much Way Hot Everyone Read

I don't think you should limit what you read.

Think You Limit Read Should

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

Accuracy Way Two Things Well Really

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

You Get Snapshot Taking Sample

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.

Good Time Direction Think Better

Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.

You Congress Know Office Out Going

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

Opportunities Remember Congress Get

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

Congress President Policy Event TV

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.

Work Truth Commitment View Personal

I think punditry serves no purpose.

Purpose Think I Think

I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

Politics People Blunt Like Much

Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.

Baseball Game You Tell Just Much

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