I generally believe people should be data savvy, and we should teach statistics in high school... and the reason is the world… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Every high school and college graduate in America should, I think, have some familiarity with statistics, economics and a foreign language such… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
There is a liberal bias. It's demonstrable. You look at some statistics. About 85 percent of the reporters who cover the White… — Evan Thomas Copy Share Image
Several national tests have revealed the following startling statistics about why salespeople fail...15% Improper training both product and sales skills. 20% Poor… — Jeffrey Gitomer Copy Share Image
According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. More than 30 percent were slain… — Alafair Burke Copy Share Image
What if one of her father’s soldiers panicked and fired for no reason? Though pilots were carefully trained, mistakes happened and she… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history. Disguised as scientific and fixed, it is subjective and… — Adam Levine Copy Share Image
I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into… — Mark Messier Copy Share Image
Why be an average person? All the great achievements of history have been made by strong individuals who refused to consult statistics… — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
“The smaller the sample size, the more likely that it is unrepresentative of the wider population..."people can be taught the correct rule,… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
After years of finding mathematics easy, I finally reached integral calculus and came up against a barrier. I realized that this was… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
The title which I most covet is that of teacher. The writing of a research paper and the teaching of freshman calculus,… — Marshall A. Cohen Copy Share Image
But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a given quantity, so it is difficult to… — Johann Bernoulli Copy Share Image
The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his… — James Whitbread Lee Glaisher Copy Share Image
There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
If you look at the statistics, I genuinely understand why when we go to a production company or a broadcaster, and they… — Joivan Wade Copy Share Image
It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds.… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Statistics on religious affiliation are notoriously slippery: the government isn't allowed to gather such data, and the membership claims of religious organizations… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
Good science is more than the mechanics of research and experimentation. Good science requires that scientists look inward-to contemplate the origin of… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an archaeologist. But in school you have to take a tremendous amount of statistics for that, and I… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
As academics we have pretty good judgment about the quality of institutions that cannot simply be measured by counting the number of… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
As a woman, it is so tough to grow your business. People are ready to hear all your creative inputs, but the… — Lara Dutta Copy Share Image
Statistics show that a soldier's chances of survival in the front lines of combat are greater than the chances of an unborn… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
To me, the main weakness of EDA is its failure to enquire why the data were collected in the first place and… — Michael Healy Copy Share Image
Technology and the Internet have created a new set of relationships. It's changed the social fabric of promotion: advertising, dating. Part of… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
You can never compare a stadium full of people to statistics online ... There's something about seeing people's faces, and it's amazing… — Lilly Singh Copy Share Image
In the welter of statistics about selected ethnic origins (singular or multiple) in the last census, one finding was often overlooked. Of… — Charlotte Gray Copy Share Image
A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
Data-driven statistics has the danger of isolating statistics from the rest of the scientific and mathematical communities by not allowing valuable cross-pollination… — Lawrence Shepp Copy Share Image
We've taken disturbances and fluctuations and averaged them together to give us comfortable statistics. Our training has been to look for big… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
Our economy will not prosper as long as it is monopolised (by the government). The economy must be rid of monopoly and… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
If ... we choose a group of social phenomena with no antecedent knowledge of the causation or absence of causation among them,… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative.… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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