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Nate Silver

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

Nate Silver

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Even though we have access to a huge amount of information today, our ability to think and understand hasn't improved significantly. Therefore, the important skill is to figure out which pieces of information are valuable and which are just distractions.

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