Quotes About Accuracy

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Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice.

It is always more valuable to report the truth.

History matters. Facts matter. But above all else, context matters. Changing history and facts—canceling them as if they did not exist or changing them to suit some twenty-first-century weaponized truism is another form of propaganda and lie.

I know every arrow must count, and they do. In the eerie light,

It's nice to be right sometimes.

No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.

You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.

My sense is that, when you look at what people such as former Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have said over the years, you don't go with a story unless you have two independent sources to confirm it.

Readers are increasingly reliant on digital sources for information - and they are increasingly reliant on these sources to be accurate.

We really should stop taking historical novelists seriously as historians. The idea that they have authority is ludicrous. They are very good at imagining character: that's why the novels sell. They have no authority when it comes to the handling of historical sources. Full stop.

In golf, 'close' is like the north and south rim of the Grand Canyon.

When the spaces are small, the crosses have to be good.

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

Numbers are important to the life, you better stay good at arithmetics.

Maybe it was the heart which punished one with such exquisite accuracy.

A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.

In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.

As an accurate thinker, it is both your privilege and your duty to avail yourself of facts, even though you must go out of your way to get them. If you permit yourself to be swayed to and fro by all manner of information that comes to your attention, you will never become an accurate thinker; and if you do not think accurately, you cannot be sure of attaining the object of your definite chief aim in life.

More data means more information, but it also means more false information.

If you ever do have to heed a forecast, keep in mind that its accuracy degrades rapidly as you extend it through time.

Because what matters in life isn't how frequently one is "right" about outcomes, but how much one makes when one is right. Being wrong, when it is not costly, doesn't count—in a way that's similar to trial-and-error mechanisms of research.

second fallacy lies in failing to take into account forecast degradation as the projected period lengthens. We