Quotes About Accuracy

I mean, journalism is very detailed... you try to get down in the weeds and sort out exactly what happened. And I don't think that a feature film is really a place where that happens.

We need to police ourselves in the media.

Polygraphs are not allowed as evidence in most U.S. courts, but they're routinely used in police investigations, and the Defense Department relies heavily on them for security screening.

If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq.

Being politically correct means saying what's polite rather than what's accurate. I like to be accurate.

Our polling methodology has gotten outdated, and, in fact, it's not really telling us what it needs to be telling us.

I think polling methodology is broken.

I know that a lot of people love to say that polls are wrong or don't matter, and from time to time they are - it depends on who they are polling.

If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.

The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake.

National polls basically always misinterpret the final outcome or mis-predict the final outcome.

Exit polls have gone notoriously wrong in the past.

One shouldn't always assume polls are wrong, but if anyone learned anything from 2016 and 2018, it's that polls are not always right.

The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It's also a form that's very popular - the straight-ahead biopic.

My responsibility isn't to paint a flattering portrait; my responsibility is to paint a real portrait, a true portrait.

There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate.

My opinion is that the movie business should show an accurate picture, but I think the responsibility lies in the educational system. Most of the educational material I've seen on the Native American does not portray an actual picture.

I've given up on being accurately portrayed in the media.

The deaf community is nearly never portrayed accurately on television/film because most writers never took the time to immerse themselves in the deaf culture before portraying it on television. They also never got to know their deaf actors.

We're assaulted with facts, pseudo facts, jibber-jabber, and rumour, all posing as information. Trying to figure out what you need to know and what you can ignore is exhausting.

I have no doubt that Glenn Kessler is a nice guy, but the job of 'fact' 'checking' the Washington Post's ally Joe Biden will not rest with anyone so politically biased in his favor. It just won't.

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.