Quotes About Inconsistency

I leave the world in terrible turmoil. I come back, same turmoil. Nothing at all different. Well, outfits are a little different...

Una mente indefinida y apática es una mente voluble y despersonalizada, que no es capaz de reconocerse a sí misma. Es líquida: se escapa, se derrama, toma la forma del recipiente que la contiene o permanece indefinida e inconsistente. Vaciada de toda idea, la mente líquida le coquetea al nihilismo, no fija posición ni se compromete.

In terms of noise, psychiatry is an extreme case.

When predictability is poor—which it is in most of the studies reviewed by Meehl and his followers—inconsistency is destructive of any predictive validity.

The evidence presents a profound challenge to the idea that humans have consistent preferences and know how to maximize them, a cornerstone of the rational-agent model. An inconsistency is built into the design of our minds.

Personnel decisions are noisy. Interviewers of job candidates make widely different assessments of the same people. Performance ratings of the same employees are also highly variable and depend more on the person doing the assessment than on the performance being assessed.

Personnel decisions are noisy. Interviewers of job candidates make widely different assessments of the same people. Performance ratings of the same employees are also highly variable and depend more on the person doing

System noise is inconsistency, and inconsistency damages the credibility of the system.

Experienced radiologists who evaluate chest X-rays as "normal" or "abnormal" contradict themselves 20% of the time when they see the same picture on separate occasions

An inconsistency is built into the design of our mind.

judgment, there is noise—and more of it than we think.

Level noise is when judges show different levels of severity. Pattern noise is when they disagree with one another on which defendants deserve more severe or more lenient treatment. And part of pattern noise is occasion noise—when judges disagree with themselves.

How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable -- all at the same time?

Late in his life, Rene complained of living a life of a celebrity one minute and a "John Doe" the next.

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.

She could be affectionate, generous, and optimistic one day; vengeful, depressed, and irritable the next. In the colloquial language of her friends, she was "either in the garret or cellar." In either mood, she needed attention, something the self-contained Lincoln was not always able to provide.

The only constant in this town is its yearning for imbecility.

That fellow couldn't count his balls and get the same number twice.

Over the years, CBO has been all over the board on healthcare. The only consistent point is they've missed the mark on different pieces. That's the nature of a scorekeeper.

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

Smith, parts of your story don't match up with what we found

La memoria es el perro más estúpido, le lanzas un palo y te trae cualquier otra cosa.

I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.