“Looking at the number of Google hits on travel and entertainment websites from people who lived in PS 116’s district would be data, but not evidence; and their evidentiary value would not improve even if there were millions of hits.” — Howard Wainer Copy Share Image
“In the past a theory could get by on its beauty; in the modern world a successful theory has to work for a living.” — Howard Wainer Copy Share Image
“Looking at the number of Google hits on travel and entertainment websites from people who lived in PS 116’s district would be data, but… — Howard Wainer Copy Share Image
“It is too easy for the sheer mass of big data to overwhelm the sorts of healthy skepticism that is required to defeat deception.… — Howard Wainer Copy Share Image
“It also makes clear why an observational study needs to collect lots of ancillary information about each participant so that the kind of balancing… — Howard Wainer Copy Share Image
