In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent signal or noise

I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.

People have different ways of interpreting history.

I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.

People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.