If you have reason to think that yesterday’s forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it. Nate Silver Read Quote
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. Nate Silver Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Nate Silver Read Quote
I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don’t really have control over. Nate Silver Read Quote
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 Read Quote
