Quotes About Analysis

Our research led on to other things, such as the fact that exchange rates are not lognormally distributed.

I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.

Reading papers and memorizing them doesn't make you a good researcher.

Researchers have always tried to use psychology for predictive ends: Can what we already know about a person tell us how she will behave in a given situation? The results of these endeavors have been mixed.

I've seen people spend days, if not months, researching and gathering data, but only at the end did they finally figure out what they were really looking for; then they have to redo a lot of stuff. If after a day or so you force yourself to put together your tentative conclusions, then you'll have guidance for the rest of your research.

Cris Collinsworth

People like to shy away from comparisons. Personally, I think that's a mistake. Comparisons can be good. People like to compartmentalize things within their own heads, and helping them do that can actually be a positive thing for the brand you're trying to build.

Don't ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, accounting, accounting. Know your numbers.

It's a lot easier to opine from the sidelines.

Election losses are always an inkblot test for partisans. If a candidate's defeat has no clear and obvious cause, if the data points are all over the map, it is easy for those on the sidelines to claim, 'Candidate X would have won if only he or she had been more like... me.'

There is an extensive body of writing from both sides of the political aisle that has analyzed the extraordinary depths of hatred leveled at former President George W. Bush.

I never have used computers or calculators. I've always been able to figure out in my head, far before my opposition has, in negotiating for acquisitions, where we need to be and where the numbers are and how we could get the best sight of the bargain, without having to resort to accountants or assistants or financial experts.

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.

Gaming provides us with some very good signals about consumers and what they're interested in.

You know, I'm a physician. I like to diagnose things. And, you know, I've diagnosed some pretty, pretty significant issues that I think a lot of people resonate with.

People believe the best way to learn from the data is to have a hypothesis and then go check it, but the data is so complex that someone who is working with a data set will not know the most significant things to ask. That's a huge problem.

I do believe that Jodi Arias shows a lot of signs of mental illness.

We have a lot of really boring, silly, stupid politics. We need people to point that out.

Interviewing someone is very similar to preparing a character, isn't it? You're just asking questions: 'Who is this person? Why did they make that choice? Why are they doing that?' You're being Sherlock Holmes.

I don't really know how music and comedy are similar. I try never to dissect it theoretically or academically.

Horror fans are a particular breed. They analyze films with such detail and expertise that I am reminded of the Canadian literary critic Northrup Frye, who approached literature with similar archetypal analysis.

Cultural comparisons are good because they can tell you about what's similar, but also sometimes they make it easier to see obvious differences.

Football and chess can seem like sporting polar opposites, but there are so many similarities with the modern game.

During the course of my research, I had had occasion to examine not only simple compounds, salts and oxides, but also a great number of minerals.