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Nate Silver: belief

23 Feb 2016 Conversations with Tyler Nate Silver on the Supreme Court and the Underrated Stat for Finding Good Food (Live at Mason)

“A little bit of work, working 20 percent of the time, I think reduces your enjoyment by 70 percent.”

— Nate Silver

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Speaker
Nate Silver
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
23 Feb 2016
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Conversations with Tyler

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…You’ve repeated that experience each subsequent trip. No. [laughter] But no. I was in Thailand, by contrast, this Christmas, and I had to build the goddamn primaries election model, and so yeah, your enjoyment goes down a lot. A little bit of work, working 20 percent of the time, I think reduces your enjoyment by 70 percent. Hi, my name is Caleb. We talked a little bit earlier about superforecasters, and I was wondering if you’ve ever considered incorporating the work of superforecasters into FiveThirtyEight?…

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