Quotes About Accuracy

The fact that we've heard a claim repeated over and over again doesn't make it correct. But it can lead us to accept this claim as correct even when it's not, because we can confuse a statement's familiarity with its accuracy

Studies of the DSM-II found that when two psychiatrists consulted the same patient, they gave the same DSM diagnosis only between 32 and 42 percent of the time.

Good decisions mad on bad data are just bad decisions you don't know about...yet.

Guns were loud, expensive, and generally inaccurate. Sensible modern men used crossbows, like

When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong.

I've been doing interviews for years, and in all that time, I've virtually never read one and gone, 'Yep, factually and tonally that's exactly what happened.' Pretty much never.

You must not lie about trilobites, nor yet about time.

You only hit a straight ball by accident. The ball is going to move right or left every time you hit it, so you had better make it go one way or the other.

90 percent of the time the terms are misused or unnecessary. Not every image obtained from a computer is a screen shot.

So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong!

Time is a slippery concept, and we are often wrong about it... All too often we find ourselves looking in the right places at the wrong times.

At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net.

Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately undermines the movie.

Only God gets things right the first time.

Unfortunately, at this moment in time, Robbie Keane can't hit a barn door for us.

Digital is a disaster. No digital radio has the correct time and they don't even agree with each other.

Nobody is right all the time and even a broken clock is right twice a day.

If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

Use the right word, not its second cousin.

Herodotus says, Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects.

I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

First get the facts, you can distort them later

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