"And knowing what happens on average is a……" — Steven Levitt
"And knowing what happens on average is a good place to start. By so doing, we insulate ourselves from the tendency to build our thinking - our daily decisions, our laws, our governance - on exceptions and anomalies rather than on reality"
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27 Quotes by Steven Levitt
Steven Levitt has 27 quotes on this site.
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Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data…
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After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective,…
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Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.
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The key to learning is feedback. It is nearly impossible to learn anything without it.
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When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.
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The gulf between the information we proclaim & the information we know to be true is vast. In other words:…
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Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way…
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If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times…
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Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry.
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No matter how expert you may be, well-designed checklists can improve outcomes.
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I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We've come to believe…
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Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be…
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More Anomalies Quotes
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one of 52 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
— Margaret Atwood
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do…
— Walter Bagehot
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Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of…
— Franklin Pierce
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Every science is made up entirely of anomalies rearranged to fit.
— R. A. Lafferty
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We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in…
— Midge Decter
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From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in…
— Thandie Newton
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We must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days…
— Emma Thompson
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Walter Beasley is an anomaly: a successful performing musician who possesses the rare skill of understanding the musical process beyond…
— Branford Marsalis
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We tend to think of dangers and uncertainties as anomalies in the continuum of life, or irruptions of unpredictable forces…
— Arthur Kleinman
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I'd been sick on tour for about two years with this medical anomaly that doctors couldn't figure out. That's a…
— Lana Del Rey
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When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.
— Robert Venturi
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