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.

Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.

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.

I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.

People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.

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.

Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.