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Quotes About Detect

Predictably, psychologists who test police officers' ability to spot lies in a controlled setting find a big gap between their confidence and their skill. And that gap grows as officers become more experienced and they assume, not unreasonably, that their experience has made them better lie detectors. As a result, officers grow confident faster than they grow accurate, meaning they grow increasingly overconfident.
~ Philip E. Tetlock
And character is not merely rare, it is hard to detect soon enough. Although nothing brings it out like matrimony.
~ Dave Duncan
Mr Weldon grappled for some moments with this surprising piece of logic, but failed to detect either the petitio eleuchi, the undistributed middle or the inaccurate major premiss which is contrived to combine.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
The Indians are finding the gaps like a pin in a haystack.
~ Navjot Singh Sidhu
Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the station in life to which he was born.
~ Richard Henry Stoddard
That is, we are hardwired to detect relationships where often none exist, a tendency science writer Michael Shermer has labeled "patternicity.
~ William J. Bernstein
a rational political system makes it as easy as possible to detect, and persuade others, that a leader or policy is bad, and to remove them without violence if they are.
~ David Deutsch
a rational political system makes it as easy as possible to detect, and persuade others, that a leader or policy is bad, and to remove
~ David Deutsch
How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?
~ Steven Wright
Cancer lies dormant in all of us. Like all living organisms, our bodies are making defective cells all the time. That's how tumors are born. But our bodies are also equipped with a number of mechanisms that detect and keep such cells in check.
~ David Servan-Schreiber
Error-prone or biased artificial-intelligence systems have the potential to taint our social ecosystem in ways that are initially hard to detect, harmful in the long term, and expensive - or even impossible - to reverse.
~ Kate Crawford
i can always find you
~ Jennifer Ashley
Primates are hardwired for us/them dichotomies. Our brains detect them in less than 100 milliseconds.
~ Robert Sapolsky
I think, personally - I don't know if other readers would agree - but reading 'Penumbra,' I detect an Internet writer or a writer who came up on the Internet.
~ Robin Sloan
I think like a detective.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Famous Shoes knew the young ranger was scared. Nothing was easier to detect in a man than fear. It showed even in the way he fumbled with his cup while drinking coffee; and it was normal that he would be afraid. He didn't know where he was
~ Larry McMurtry
Your thin white face, chérie; he said, as if he saw it for the first time. Your thin white face, with its promise of debauchery only a connoisseur could detect.
~ Angela Carter
I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content in ground meat in a burger and can actually name the temperature to which it was actually cooked to the degree if I'm, you know, really on my game.
~ Alton Brown
The rule isn't just for teams and organizations. It is a personal commitment that shapes how you judge people, the kind of individuals you hang out with and work with, and your determination to detect, dampen, and defeat disrespectful actions made by yourself and others.
~ Robert I. Sutton
Perceptions of the world and of other actors diverge from reality in patterns that we can detect and for reasons that we can understand.
~ Robert Jervis
The word dark is a misnomer, since it implies that lack of light is the problem, that if you could just shine a flashlight on dark matter you could see it. But this stuff can't be detected by our current science. Period.
~ Douglas E. Richards
I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought—frequently
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald