“Typical of the form is an item from the Wall Street Journal’s Washington Wire blog of June 24, 2013: The Social Security Administration’s inspector general on Monday said the agency improperly paid $31 million in benefits to 1,546 Americans believed… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“if your government isn’t wasteful, you’re spending too much time fighting government waste.” — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
My reading practice is one reason I mostly don't read electronically. Different books are in different rooms of my house, and one is in… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world.” — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“If you decide what color jelly beans to eat based just on the papers that get published, you’re making the same mistake the army… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“Risky strategies can be analyzed numerically; uncertain strategies, Ellsberg suggested, were beyond the bounds of formal mathematical analysis” — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“if we now feel comfortable rejecting the conclusions of the Witztum study, what does that say about the reliability of our standard statistical tests?” — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“His most famous paradox goes like this. I decide to walk to the ice cream store. Now certainly I can’t get to the ice cream store until I’ve gone halfway there. And once I’ve gone halfway, I can’t get to the store until I’ve gone half the distance that remains. Having done so, I still have to cover half the… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share
“scientists and statisticians have already been worrying about them for quite some time.” — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
