We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very good at it.
If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.
I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.
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.