Quotes About Accuracy

To train the mind to move with the maximum speed and energy, with the utmost possible accuracy in the chosen direction, and with the minimum of disturbance or friction. That is Magick. To stop the mind altogether. That is Yoga.

Se sei una conchiglia, è importante l'ordine. Se sei guscio e animale, tutto deve essere perfetto. L'esattezza ti salverà.

Pretending that something doesn't exist if it's hard to quantify leads to faulty models. You've already seen the system trap that comes from setting goals around what is easily measured, rather than around what is important. So

most of what goes wrong in systems goes wrong because of biased, late, or missing information.

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine." —Neil deGrasse Tyson

Twenty-two percent of people who identified as "very liberal" said they thought the police shot at least ten thousand unarmed black men in a year. Among self-identified liberals, fully 40 percent thought the figure was between one thousand and ten thousand. The actual figure was somewhere around ten.20

Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.

It is better to be approximately right than to be precisely wrong. —Warren Buffett

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the state of science. —Lord Kelvin (1824–1907),

Measurement: A quantitatively expressed reduction of uncertainty based on one or more observations.

Any decision we think we are about to make is something that can be Googled before we commit to a choice.

Very few experts actually measure their performance over time, and they tend to summarize their memories with anecdotes. They are right sometimes and wrong sometimes, but the anecdotes they remember tend to be more flattering to them.

we need to treat measurement as observations that quantitatively reduce uncertainty.

Definition of Measurement Measurement: A quantitatively expressed reduction of uncertainty based on one or more observations.

If we incorrectly think that measurement means meeting some nearly unachievable standard of certainty, then few things will be measurable even in the physical sciences.

what makes a measurement of high value is a lot of uncertainty combined with a high cost of being wrong.

You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies we do.

Dr. Shreenivas R. Deshpande

The real problem of prediction, in other words, is not that we are universally good or bad at it, but rather that we are bad at distinguishing predictions that we can make reliably from those that we can't.

I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.

We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about it, I have to take responsibility to get all of it right. It's a huge responsibility.

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.