Quotes About Accuracy

No greater mistake can be made than to assume that newspapers are correct indices of public opinion.

Newspaper accounts must not only be studied, but, occasionally refuted.

Veritas, truth

There was a survey done a few years ago that affected me greatly. it was discovered that intelligent people either estimate their intelligence accurately or slightly underestimate themselves, but stupid people overestimate their intelligence and by huge margins. (And these were things like straight up math tests, not controversial IQ tests.)

The cup is only one inch wide for a putt that is struck too hard. The cup is four inches wide for a ball that dies at the hole.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as much as you please. —Mark Twain

Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood.

David's success depended on surprise and accuracy. He knew he could not defeat Goliath on the giant's terms, which is why he rejected Saul's armor and with it the conventions of this form of combat.

80 percent of the balls that don't reach the hole, don't go in.

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

I doubt there's ever been a true thing said on Fox. Maybe the weather report, maybe not.

In a print interview, as you may or may not know, they can do whatever they want. And they do. This is why most people are more hesitant to do print, because they can change it, and they do change it. They even change things that are in quotation marks, which is a pet peeve of mine.

people often make correct predictions on the basis of erroneous beliefs and defective prediction strategies.

A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.

p.45: Es preferible acertar aproximadamente a equivocarse precisamente.

Memory's oldest trick is convincing us of its accuracy.

A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or talked to people who did. These writers are called journalists, and like telephone operators, butchers, ballerinas, and people who clean up after horses, journalists can sometimes make mistakes.

She wouldn't have to be lying to be wrong.

Just because something is typed—whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book—this does not mean that it is true. The

Newspaper stories aren't always accurate," Klaus said nervously. The shopkeeper frowned. "Nonsense," he said. "The Daily Punctilio wouldn't print things that aren't true. If the newspaper says somebody is a murderer, then they are a murderer and that's the end of it. Now you said you wanted to send a telegram?

Scientists are complaining that the new Dinosaur movie shows dinosaurs with lemurs, who didn't evolve for another million years. They're afraid the movie will give kids a mistaken impression. What about the fact that the dinosaurs are singing and dancing?

I know a rancher," says Grace. "When he was in his field with his cows, he counted one hundred and ninety-six. But when he rounded them up, he had two hundred.

Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart.

The copy editor looks for inconsistencies in content (does your character have blue eyes in Chapter 1, and green eyes in Chapter 30?