Quotes About Evaluation

The purpose of studying economics is to learn how not to be deceived by economists.

But this is my old game, isn't it? Comparing, judging, evaluating, liking and disliking, approving and disapproving. There are, I sense, inseparable strengths and weaknesses in whatever way you go, and the point ultimately is just to go.

Bir ÅŸeyi övmek, bir baÅŸka ÅŸeyi kötülemek anlam?na gelmez.

Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking what a fire hydrant feels about dogs.

Clinical descriptions and Epidemiology

Though it is the hardest thing, to work out one's weight and heft in the world, to whittle down all that I am and give it a value.

He sounded good, didn't he?" added Franck. "He only stuttered eight times." "That's what I mean.

We shall all have to be judged according to our works, whether they be towards man or towards beast.

I may not be using the straightest ruler when it comes to measuring crazy. - Vicki DeVine

Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

They wrestle with why it has turned out so badly, unsure whom to blame.

Sometimes the measure of a person can only be gleaned through his interactions with others.

Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.

Had she punished him enough? How could she be sure?

I don't adhere to the idea that you don't make moral judgments. I think history is a moral profession. We don't just look back and say, oh, and here is how they slaughtered the innocents, and go move on.

Love does not require taking an uncritical stance toward the object of one's affections.

Have you looked in the mirror lately?" asked Bean.

What makes a decision great is not that it has a great outcome. A great decision is the result of a good process, and that process must include an attempt to accurately represent our own state of knowledge. That state of knowledge, in turn, is some variation of "I'm not sure.

And this feeling that the result of the decision tells you something significant about the quality of the decision process is so powerful that even when the description of the decision is identical (you quit your job and take a new position), your view of that decision changes as the quality of the result changes.

this idea of casting yourself into the future, imagining a failure, and then looking back to try to figure out why is called a premortem. Using a premortem is a great tool to help develop high-quality kill criteria.

RESULTING A mental shortcut in which we use the quality of an outcome to figure out the quality of a decision.

To figure out whether a decision is good or bad, you need to know not just the things that might reasonably happen and what could be gained or lost, but also the likelihood of each possibility unfolding. That means, to become a better decision-maker, you need to be willing to estimate those probabilities.

There's a name for this: Resulting. When people result, they look at whether the result was good or bad to figure out if the decision was good or bad. (Psychologists

The quality of the outcome casts a shadow over our ability to see the quality of the decision.