Quotes About Assessment

Know how to rank your beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.

Being reviewed or assessed by others matters if and only if one is subjected to the judgment of future—not just present—others. And recall that, a free person does not need to win arguments—just win.*2

Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler. The less you trust a ruler's reliability (in probability called the prior), the more information you are getting about the ruler and the less about the table.

So, a heuristic: if someone has a long bio, I skip him

that an evaluation causes you to be judged not by the end results, but by some intermediary metric that invites you to look sophisticated, brings some distortions.

Getting rich results in his seeing flaws in the goods and services he buys.

in fact, they are so blind to the odds that they treat odds of one in a thousand and one in a million almost in the same way.

we don't recognize it in other places, where these options tend to remain underpriced or not priced at all.

much of the opinions and assessments that we have concerning risks may be the simple result of emotions.

Know how to rank beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.

We cannot teach people to withhold judgment; judgments are embedded in the way we view objects.

by exposing an idea in raw form, allows it to be judged by the public.

Never cross a river if it is on average four feet deep

the retrospective distortion, or how we can assess matters only after the fact, as if they were in a rearview mirror (history seems clearer and more organized in history books than in empirical reality);

Clearly, the quality of a decision cannot be solely judged based on its outcome

Let me say further that one of the characteristics of persons with healthy self-esteem is that they tend to assess their abilities and accomplishments realistically, neither denying nor exaggerating them.

Pay attention: There will be an exam later.

If average students are increasingly getting the highest possible grade, how can employers and graduate schools identify the truly exceptional

The purpose of any program evaluation is to provide some kind of counterfactual against which a treatment or intervention can be measured.

But it's not perfect. The GPA does not reflect the difficulty of the courses that different students may have taken.

As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look.

We have a saying that a snake is never as long as the stick to which we liken its length.

I don't know if you could take a whole 90 minutes and say that was the best game we ever played.

When I come home, I always look in the mirror and I want to see where I could do better, where I can improve.