Quote by Jordan Ellenberg Download Open image ““The significance test is the detective, not the judge.”” — Jordan Ellenberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Remember particularly that you cannot be a judge of any one. For no one can judge a criminal, until he recognises that he is… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Remember especially that you cannot be the judge of anyone. For there can be no judge of a criminal on earth until the judge… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“A judge at common law may be an ordinary man; a good judge of a carpet must be a genius.” — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Forget the damned investigation. I am beginning to think that if the matter were put to the test, I would finish a poor second… — Amanda Quick Copy Share Image
“I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from an armchair, my brother would be the greatest criminal agent that ever lived. But he has no ambition and no energy. He will not even go out of his way to verify his own solutions, and would… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share
“Don’t judge based on what you see, judge based on what you know, because the two are rarely similar.” — Markus Peterson Copy Share Image
“You surprise me, Hastings. Do you not know that all celebrated detectives have brothers who would be even more celebrated than they are were… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“I believe in justice, as long as I'm holding a knife at the throat of the judge.” — Matthew Stover Copy Share Image
“Why is the eye considered a reliable judge when it knows nothing of love or intelligence?” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“When searching for justice, what you sometimes find is just more trouble.” — Maryann Austin 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… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“scientists and statisticians have already been worrying about them for quite some time.” — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
