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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't

Book by Nate Silver · 15 quotes · Marketing, Noise, Signals

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“Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

“One of the pervasive risks that we face in the information age, as I wrote in the introduction, is that even if the amount of knowledge in the world is increasing, the gap between what we know and what we think we know may be widening.”