Nate Silver

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

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right…

First of all, I think it’s odd that people who cover politics wouldn’t have any…

I was looking for something like baseball, where there’s a lot of data and the…

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge…

When you try to predict future E.R.A.’s with past E.R.A.’s, you’re making a…

People still don’t appreciate how ephemeral success is…

In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right…

I love South American food, and I haven’t really been down there. I really need…

I’ve become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I’m actually doing…

I guess I don’t like the people in politics very much, to be blunt…

Success makes you less intimidated by things…

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a…

We’re not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much…