Quotes About Validity

In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

One witness one liar; more witnesses, all liars.

Rumor is not always wrong. - from Life of Agricola

No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.

There's a security, a validity of knowing that it's legal. It's hard to put into words. It's just a feeling, I guess - something about saying vows in front of the people around you who love and support you.

Am I good enough? That's a big thing. Sometimes I do put on a front of 'I'm amazing' and I do believe it, but sometimes I don't believe it.

Bill Haskell was real.

If you think TNA sucks, you're right.

Indictments obtained in the absence of sufficient proof under the law do not stand up and are not fundamentally fair to anyone.

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true. Some beliefs are false, and we know them to be false. So it does no good to put a halo on the notion of tolerance as if everything could be equally true. To deem all beliefs equally true is sheer nonsense for the simple reason that to deny that statement would also, then, be true. But if the denial of the statement is also true, then all religions are not true.

The reality is that if religion is to be treated with intellectual respect, then it must stand the test of truth

All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true. Some beliefs are false, and we know them to be false. So it does no good to put a halo on the notion of tolerance as if everything could be equally true. To deem all beliefs equally true is sheer nonsense for the simple reason that to deny that statement would also, then, be true. But if the denial of the statement is also true, then all religions are not true. In

Everything He said and did sustains that claim, and contrarily, nothing He said or did challenges that claim.

But that doesn't seem to matter; all that does matter is that the information comes from a reputable source.

Truth by definition is exclusive. If truth were all-inclusive, nothing would be false.

The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at.

I tend to view the occasional failures of algorithms as opportunities to improve them. On the other hand, I find more pleasure than Klein does in the come-uppance of arrogant experts who claim intuitive powers in zero-validity situations.

Richer and more realistic assumptions do not suffice to make a theory successful. Scientists

It is useful to remember, however, that neglecting valid stereotypes inevitably results in suboptimal judgments. Resistance to stereotyping is a laudable moral position, but the simplistic idea that the resistance is costles is wrong. The costs are worth paying to achieve a better society, but denying that the costs exist, while satisfying to the soul and politically correct, is no scientifically defensible.

there are many pseudo-experts who have no idea that they do not know what they are doing (the illusion of validity), and that as a general proposition subjective confidence is commonly too high and often uninformative.

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 illusions of validity and skill are supported by a powerful professional culture. We know that people can maintain an unshakable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers.