New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.

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

Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.

We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.

On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.

The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times. And so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.

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