Quotes About Accuracy

Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future.

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

From what I can tell, pollsters are generally fairly stick-to-the-facts folks. They deal in facts and statistics.

I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.

Much of what is reported on TV and other media outlets is actually pseudo or junk science, which is not real science, but is passed off as such.

the platoon moves out to the rifle range barracks for basic rifle training . The gospel according to Parris Island is that shooting accurately is a matter of discipline: Even the clumsiest recruit can do it well if he follows the prescribed steps, from sighting and aiming, to proper positioning, to trigger control and sight adjustment. "Any person in the world can be a marksman if he applies himself

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

A person's conclusions can only be as solid as the information on which they are based. Thus, a person who is exposed to almost nothing but inaccurate information on a given subject almost inevitably develops an erroneous belief, a belief that can seem to be "an irresistible product" of the individual's (secondhand) experience.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

The press, confined to truth, needs no other legal restraint.

As it turns out, however, the more specific reason that unskilled or incompetent people overestimate their abilities far more than others is because they lack a key skill called "metacognition." This is the ability to know when you're not good at something by stepping back, looking at what you're doing, and then realizing that you're doing it wrong.

They were all living right where they said they would to be.

believe that at least twenty percent of autopsies nationwide reveal that the initial theory of the cause of death is wrong.

There certainly is no "complete explanation" to be offered by one who attempts to uphold the historical accuracy of the New Testament. The "Devil" and "Type" theories having vanished, like all theories built on sand, nothing now remains for the honest man to do but acknowledge the truth, which is, that the history of Jesus of Nazareth as related in the books of the New Testament, is simply a copy of that of Buddha, with a mixture of mythology borrowed from other nations.

With non-fiction, there is the struggle to be accurate. With fiction, it is a bit different: the desire to let imagination take you to new places.

Note to all men: If you're going to make mention of something that a woman did, like wear cowboy boots, make sure you've got the right woman!

You only notice long snappers when they screw up.

Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.

Numbers don't lie. I think it's pretty cut and dry what consistency is.

I'm objective because I tell the truth.

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.

As for being an objective journalist? That's easy. I want what everyone else wants: the truth.