Quotes About Accuracy

any stories in the Gospels that do not coincide with what we know the early Christians would have wanted to say about Jesus, or indeed, any stories that seem to run directly counter to the Christians' self-interests in telling them, can stake a high claim to being historically accurate.

the criterion of dissimilarity. It states that if a tradition about Jesus is dissimilar to what the early Christians would have wanted to say about him, then it more likely is historically accurate.

There are more differences among our manuscripts than there are words in the New Testament.

The more closely our maps or paradigms are aligned with these principles or natural laws, the more accurate and functional they will be

It has everything to do with having a wrong map. If you have the right map of Chicago, then diligence becomes important, and when you encounter frustrating obstacles along the way, then attitude can make a real difference. But the first and most important requirement is the accuracy of the map.

would be so positive, you'd be happy wherever you were. The point is, you'd still be lost. The fundamental problem has nothing to do with your behavior or your attitude. It has everything to do with having a wrong map. If you have the right map of Chicago, then diligence becomes important, and when you encounter frustrating obstacles along the way, then attitude can make a real difference. But the first and most important requirement is the accuracy of the map.

The carpenter's rule is "measure twice, cut once.

The more closely our maps or paradigms are aligned with these principles or natural laws, the more accurate and functional they will be. Correct maps will infinitely impact our personal and interpersonal effectiveness far more than any amount of effort expended on changing our attitudes and behaviors.

Nadie en el mundo está completamente equivocado. Incluso un reloj parado está en lo correcto dos veces al día. PAULO COELHO, ESCRITOR

I checked," the 4th District representative said. "The count hasn't

developers' estimates tend to have an optimism factor of 20 to 30 percent

The process is called estimation, not exactimation. —Phillip Armour

A good estimate is an estimate that provides a clear enough view of the project reality to allow the project leadership to make good decisions about how to control the project to hit its targets.

the error rate in manual testing is comparable to the bug rate in the code being tested.

One effective approach is to determine a range of accuracy that is acceptable and then use a boolean function to determine whether the values are close enough.

Quicksort a few times, but what are the odds that your custom version will be fully correct on the first try?

But being confident you are right is not the same as being right.

maestros, criminales y agentes inmobiliarios pueden mentir, y también los políticos, e incluso los analistas de la CIA. Pero los números no.

The results of Tetlock's study were sobering. These most expert of experts—96 percent of them had postgraduate training—"thought they knew more than they knew," he says. How accurate were their predictions? They weren't much better than "dart-throwing chimps," as Tetlock often joked.

Smart people love to make smart-sounding predictions, no matter how wrong they may turn out to be.

Anyway, this is just the latest example of why I never trust statistics I get from people in the field of medicine, ever.

teachers and criminals and real-estate agents may lie, and politicians, and even C.I.A. analysts. But numbers don't.

When bad predictions are unpunished, what incentive is there to stop making them?

If almost all letters have stamps, then the benefit of checking each one with 100 percent accuracy is infinitesimal, so it makes sense to let some unstamped letters through.