First of all, I think it’s odd that people who cover politics wouldn’t have any political views.
A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn’t work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth – having an object outside of our personal point of view.
The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie.
Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn’t believe they applied to him.
By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.
Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
Almost everyone’s instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
When you get into statistical analysis, you don’t really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by ‘The Onion’ – or be the subject of a cartoon in ‘The New Yorker.’ I guess I’m kind of an outlier there.
I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don’t really have control over.
A lot of things can’t be modeled very well.
Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.
I’m not trying to do anything too tricky.
I don’t think you should limit what you read.
If there’s a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn’t.
I guess I don’t like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.