Quotes About Analysis

Perhaps he would glance down and see that he was doing 76 miles an hour, and he would see that 76 squared was 5,776, which ended in 76, where it started, which made 76 an automorphic number, one of only two below 100, the other being 25, whose square was 625, whose square was 390,625, which

If you hear hoof beats, you look for horses, not zebras.

They're shrinks. You said so yourself. They overcomplicate things. If you hear hoof beats, you look for horses, not zebras.

Targeting individuals, while ignoring larger system failures, oversimplifies the problem and does little to prevent its recurrence.

In dealing with history, he added, all sorts of things are possible, but not all possible things are equally probable.

Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.

whenever we have a new idea—instead of searching for ways to prove our ideas wrong, we usually attempt to prove them correct.

That is, if the winners (at the left of the graph) continued to do better than the others, and the losers (at the right) worse, this graph should be nearly identical to the last.

Just as, looking at a Rorschach blot, you might see Madonna and I, a duck-billed platypus, the data we encounter in business, law, medicine, sports, the media, or your child's third-grade report card can be read in many ways. Yet interpreting the role of chance in an event is not like intepreting a Rorschach blot; there are right ways and wrong ways to do it.

As Lerner had predicted, the observers had a need to understand the situation in terms of cause and effect.

Jakob Bernoulli had shown that through mathematical analysis one could learn how the inner hidden probabilities that underlie natural systems are reflected in the data those systems produce.

Our assessment of the world would be quite different if all our judgments could be insulated from expectation and based only on relevant data.

When we perform an assessment or measurement, our brains do not rely solely on direct perceptional input. They also integrate other sources of information—such as our expectation.

It is one thing to suspect that archers and astronomers, chemists and marketers, encounter the same error law; it is another to discover the specific form of that law.

Our assessment of the world would be quite different if all our judgments could be insulated from expectation and based only on relevant data.           A

Pearson invented a method, called the chi-square test, by which you can determine whether a set of data actually conforms to the distribution you believe it conforms to.

The essentialized approach is the opposite of that practiced by today's academic establishment, who reject system-building—that is, broad integration—in favor of the analysis of minutiae. I am as far from today's philosophy departments as an atheist is from the pope or, in more positive terms, as a man who wants to live is from an ascetic writhing in the desert. My explanation of today's philosophers is offered below, in my discussion of the D2 mentality.

Got a better theory?

Perhaps rage was an inextricable part of lesbian-feminism, because once these women analyzed the female's position in society they realized they had much to be furious about.

most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.

The brain struggling to understand the brain is society trying to explain itself.

Television is a formidable thinking tool. You are like an analyst to whom society's subconscious would be offered wide open.

I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society .... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.

If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.