I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.

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

I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen

Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don't have any discipline in how they look at the world, and so it leads to a lot of bullshit, basically.

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.

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