Evidence Quote by Robert Lane Greene Download Open image ““As economists like to say, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data.”” — Robert Lane Greene ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Evidence Evidence-based-decision-making Generalizations
The data are what matter in economics, and the more ruthlessness that an economist can summon to make sense of the data, the more… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
“ideologues of every stripe, as well as folks with interests economic, political, or personal, can interpret data and statistics to suit their own purposes...” — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
“Data doesn’t matter. Only opinions and stories formed from the data matters and gets shared and absorbed.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
When an economist says the evidence is "mixed," he or she means that theory says one thing and data says the opposite. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Peeves are like that: my peeves are law, yours are unhealthy obsessions.” — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
“Only 8000 different words appear in the Hebrew Bible, compared to the 20,000 or more that the average adult needs to know in most languages.” — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
“If you look at the historical record, you will find that language has always been in decline. Which means, really, and it never has.” — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
“to form such harsh unharmonious Sounds, that none but a Northern Ear could endure: They” — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
“Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity.” — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
“Afrikaans was the language of the white minority in South Africa, and the forced learning of it created resentment among blacks. Even so, Nelson… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
“I think flexibility, humility, and multilingualism should take the place of sticklerism, arrogance, and nationalism when we think about language. I” — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
“Virtually anything can be translated—“X cannot be translated” usually means nothing more exciting than “We have a word, X, that you need three or… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
“America’s short-lived experiment with language planning is so obscure to modern memory that while the Klingon language has a 3,000-word entry on Wikipedia, as… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
“I'd start to explain with the outward sheepish and inner pride of the nerd.” — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
“Knowing the difference between “infer” and “imply” is no more likely to create a skeptical, bullshit-detecting citizen than knowing the atomic weight of uranium… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
“It is possible to communicate beautifully or boringly, in every language on Earth. But people don't like to believe this. They make self-aggrandizing myths… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“What you owe your critics are your RESULTS not explanations not defence just RESULTS.Evidence terminates Arguments.” — Fela Durotoye Copy Share Image
“Cops aren't really your friends, they are trying to be your friends but they are not… - They are searching evidence to PIN YOU.” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
There's overwhelming evidence... circumstantial and otherwise, to suggest a connection between Iraq and al Qaeda. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources. — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
You are innocent until proven guilty. And if folks have come forward, whether it is judge Roy Moore or whether it is anyone else,… — Matt Rosendale Copy Share Image
