Nate Silver Thinking Quotations

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

If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.

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 don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'

I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.

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

I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.

I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.

I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

When a possibility is unfamiliar to us, we do not even think about it.

I know it's cheaper to fund an op-ed columnist than a team of reporters, but I think it confuses the mission of what these great journalistic brands are about,

One of the pervasive risks that we face in the information age, as I wrote in the introduction, is that even if the amount of knowledge in the world is increasing, the gap between what we know and what we think we know may be widening.

I think punditry serves no purpose.