Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedNate 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)
“I think that — [laughter] The market would say that people find online services fairly useful.”
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- Nate Silver
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- 23 Feb 2016
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…More optimistically, how about love and sex? Do you think data can improve matching? Should we just follow the algorithms, or do you think that’s a perpetual dead end and all the algorithms really do is force you chose someone, give you a phony reason and get you out of your indecision? I think that — [laughter] The market would say that people find online services fairly useful. Maybe it removes some spontaneity. I met my partner at a bar, which almost feels old-fashioned now. But it could be like these pills that are sold, the online services, like a placebo effect.…
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