Quotes About Analysis

Most arguments about income inequality are based on static analysis.

Eyeing her as a critic eyes a doubtful painting.

most psychology is puerile

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La maldad, señor, es el espíritu de la crítica, y la crítica es el origen del progreso y la ilustración.

You need your intelligence and your skepticism.

All variables are independent.

Listen to anything and take it apart again. Spectrum analysis, in my head. I can break down chords, and timbres, and words too into all the basic frequencies and harmonics, with all their different loudnesses, and listen to them, each pure tone, but all at once.

Remember that Puritans were utterly devoted, like literary critics, to the Word.

Suppose we considered the war itself as a laboratory ?

It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.

Seldom do people think things through foolishly. More often, they do not bother to think things through at all, so that even brainy individuals can reach untenable conclusions because their brainpower means little if it is not deployed and applied.

The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.

One-day-at-a-time rationalism risks restricting its analysis to the immediate implications of each issue as it arises, missing the wider implications of a decision that may have merit as regards the issue immediately at hand, considered in isolation, but which can be disastrous in terms of the ignored longer-term repercussions.

The feeling that the government should "do something" has seldom been based on a comparison of what actually happens when government does and when it does not "do something.

One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten

Before an explanation can be too simple, it must first be wrong. But often the fact that some explanation seems too simple becomes a substitute for showing that it is wrong.

lthough the basic principles of economics are not very complicated, the very ease with which they can be learned also makes them easy to dismissed as simplistic by those who do not want to accept analyses which contradict their cherished beliefs. Evasions of the obvious are often far more complicated than the facts. Nor is it automatically true that complex effects must have complex causes. The ramifications of something very simple can become enormously complex.

Economists who looked at the real consequences of a centrally planned economy came to a very different conclusion: that there are too many economic relationships, and it is impossible to take them all into account and carefully coordinate them.

How to Think about Vladimir Putin." The latter defends the Russian dictator

He was uncannily skilled at dissecting hidden meaning behind every interaction.

the first things to consider when viewing a painting are the title and subject matter.

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Interpretation is not necessarily a separate step from observation, for often, as you carefully observe the text, at that very moment you begin to see what it means. Thus, interpretation flows out of observation.