260 Quotes by Nate Silver

Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent signal or noise

Accountability doesn't mean apologizing.

Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.

Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.

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

Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.

We look at all the polls, not just the Gallup Poll. So, it's kind of like if you have, you know, four out of five doctors agree that reducing cholesterol reduces your risk of a heart attack, Gallup is like the fifth doctor.

New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.