Government waste Quote by Jordan Ellenberg

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

“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

“numerically flavored advice.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

“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

“Risky strategies can be analyzed numerically; uncertain strategies, Ellsberg suggested, were beyond the bounds of formal mathematical analysis”

— Jordan Ellenberg

“Mathematics is common sense.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

“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

“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…

— Jordan Ellenberg

“Data is messy, and inference is hard.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

“Math is a science of not being wrong about things,”

— Jordan Ellenberg

“scientists and statisticians have already been worrying about them for quite some time.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

“torturing the data until it confesses,”

— Jordan Ellenberg