"The key fact missed most often by social……" — Bruce Jackson
"The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things."
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36 Quotes by Bruce Jackson
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America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
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All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and…
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All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
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Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.
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Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.
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Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.
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Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films…
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First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring…
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For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be…
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It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the…
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Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose…
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Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.
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More Data Quotes
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The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in…
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Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
— Charles Babbage
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If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was…
— Michele Bachmann
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Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from…
— Roseanne Barr
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I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and…
— Roseanne Barr
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Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide…
— David Boies
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Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you…
— Edward de Bono
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
— Thomas Carlyle
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There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.
— Vinton Cerf
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Merely presenting a driver's license or other document based on a birth certificate is not enough for an accurate verification.…
— Bob Dole
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The great uncertainty of all data in war is because all action, to a certain extent, planned in a mere…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Biggest pent-up negative wealth effect you can see in the economic data going back to 1952.
— Unknown Author
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