Quotes By Nate Silver

Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

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

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

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.

I've just always been a bit of a dork.

People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.

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.

We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.

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

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

First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.

If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring.

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

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

A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.

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