Quotes About Variability

The standard deviation measures dispersion in the underlying population

They will still be distributed around the true coefficient for the whole population, but the shape of that distribution will not be our familiar bell-shaped normal curve.

Instead, we have to assume that repeated samples of just 25 will produce more dispersion around the true population coefficient—and therefore a distribution with "fatter tails.

For large samples, we can assume that the standard deviation of the sample is reasonably close to the standard deviation of the population.*

I don't believe in rules. I think that there are probably always exceptions to everything

The Igbo culture says no condition is permanent. There is constant change in the world.

In a Google world, meaning and ontology are entirely in the eyes and minds of the beholder. One thing can be many different things to many different people.

I've wrestled in front of great crowds in Montreal, and I've wrestled absolutely terrible crowds where you're in front of, like, 200 people.

My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.

Every performance is different because I'm different; my mood is different.

My moods are like a roller coaster. It's hard for me to just feel one way all the time.

Sometimes I am moody or bubbly, and then at other times, I just want to disconnect. I am an extreme person.

Whether a player rotates more or less depends on his form and his position. It's not the same for a center back as it is for a winger. Every player is different.

People are, well, people, and they all have their own quirks and will do whatever they want to no matter what you would like them to do.

Most people do not act consistently.

Acknowledging that students learn on different timetables, and that they differ widely in their ability to think abstractly or understand complex ideas, is no different than acknowledging that students at any given age aren't all the same height. It is not a statement of worth but of reality.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

One man's meat is another's poison.

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility.

Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same old dog's rear end every day.

One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.

She's not moody. She's just known for her versatility of emotions.

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.