Algorithms Quote by Susan Fiske

[There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack of understanding about what…

— Irving Langmuir

Humans are startlingly bad at detecting fraud. Even when we're on the lookout for signs of deception, studies show, our accuracy is hardly better…

— Maria Konnikova

On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.

— Nate Silver

I argue that experiments have no special ability to produce more credible knowledge than other methods, and that actual experiments are frequently subject to…

— Angus Deaton

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

— Marie Curie

Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of…

— Humphry Davy

With reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand, I did…

— Thucydides

Psychologists pay lip service to the scientific method, and use it whenever it is convenient; but when it isn't they make wild leaps of…

— Anthony Standen

Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they’re lazy, and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they…

— Ben Bradlee

“For example, a set of twenty-five studies involving five hundred astrologers examined the average degree of agreement between astrological predictions. In social science, such…

— Massimo Pigliucci

In the real world of research, conventional tests of [statistical] significance seem almost worthless.

— Fischer Black

Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

— Aaron Levenstein