Quotes About Reliability

high subjective confidence is not to be trusted as an indicator of accuracy (low confidence could be more informative).

Klein and I eventually agreed on an important principle: the confidence that people have in their intuitions is not a reliable guide to their validity.

We pay more attention to the content of messages than to information about their reliabillity, and as a result end up with a view of the world around us that is simpler and more coherent than the data justify. Jumping to conclusions is a safer sport in the world of our imagination than it is in reality.

Whatever their flaws, rankings are less noisy than ratings.

Similarly, in whatever enterprise you find yourself, practice predictability. Never impose your mood swings on your associates and customers.

Similarly, in whatever enterprise you find yourself, practice predictability. Never impose your mood swings on your associates and customers. They should never be able to discover how your life is going. This is called being professional.

Promise less than you deliver

I, however, am a source of unvarnished truth, even when it hurts. – Oliver Dimbleby

Unlike people, numbers never lied.

Because men who tell one lie usually tell others. - Gabriel Allon

People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium. [We] need to pay some more attention to that, because it's actually kind of fragile.

There's honour amongst the myopic. You can trust us. We're honest about our disability – not like people who wear contact lenses, the deceitful bastards.

We can trust the humans,

Many a statistic is false on its face. It gets by only because the magic of numbers brings about a suspension of common sense.

Many a statistic is false on its face. It gets by only because the magic of numbers bring about a suspension of common sense

I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink to much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.

Do the right thing, deliver what you promised, and be consistent in the way you do it no matter what.

Over the years I have been told many secret methods for determining the sex of day-old ducklings. When tested, these techniques have proven to be only 50 percent accurate at best.

Humpty Dumpty is hard to put back together, and so is trust.

People will not buy from you if they don't trust you, your product, and your company.

People who change their values, their ethics, are not trustworthy and should be avoided.

If you're using a dollar store pregnancy test, you're probably pregnant.

walked to the door. "You know, you don't have to show me the way. I done this enough times now, I know how to get there." "Yeah, probably," the guard said. "They just like us to walk along with you, make sure you don't get lost along the way. Besides, I've got money on you tonight. You're not gonna disappoint me, are you?

To trust someone is to believe that he or she has your best interests in mind, that the person will protect you from harm and is reliable.