Quotes About Analysis

We did a very deep analysis into the consumer cohort and found that the most frequent users are the most price-sensitive consumers," said Pathmalal. "There isn't going to be an influx of new users... which is a prerequisite for high-growth markets."

Gottlob Frege's Begriffsschrift.

At a tight table with a full complement of players, you need to assume that bets mean pretty much what they're supposed to mean.

Before you make a move, remember to take the whole position into account. In poker, your position includes everything you know: about your hand, about the players at the table, the chip counts, the situation - anything that can provide a clue about how the people you're facing will behave.

leaders should be wary of common sense, which can be a poor substitute for evidence.)

The postmortem for a problem can be the preamble to a solution.

Students need to decide, 'All right, well, does the height matter? Does the side of it matter? Does the color of the valve matter? What matters here?' — such an underrepresented question in math curriculum.

This is where Bayes' Theorem comes in and helps us have a clearer picture. By using the theorem, we are forced to look at all data and update our hypothesis with new evidence.

Simply put, we have more people talking about news and less original reporting. Whether on television or online, there is no shortage of analysis. But analysis is only as good as the information that supports it. The deep cuts to newsrooms in print and electronic media have resulted in far fewer reporters waking up each morning deciding what story they will chase. There is less investigative reporting ....

The ways in which art history has approached these tasks has changed over time.

identifying, categorizing, interpreting, describing, and thinking about works of art.

The correct answer to almost any question in economics is: It depends.

policy discussion usually means pitting one model against another. Viewpoints and policy prescriptions that aren't backed by a model typically don't have standing.

He always asks questions, and those questions are always the same: personal, direct, focused on the big picture. What did you think of it? What would you have done in that situation?

The pattern seemed to hold: the youngest kids were frequently the fastest runners. It became more interesting when I broadened the sample group slightly.

participants look at the task as a whole—as one big chunk, the megacircuit. Second, they divide it into its smallest possible chunks. Third, they play with time, slowing the action down, then speeding it up, to learn its inner architecture

The goal of an AAR is not to excavate truth for truth's sake, or to assign credit and blame, but rather to build a shared mental model that can be applied to future missions.

Operations analysts turned to questions of what the mix should be of explosives and different sorts of incendiaries for the most efficient, cost-effective ways to burn German workers and their families alive.

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when we are selecting, we consider the positive attributes of our alternatives, and when we are rejecting, we consider the negative attributes.

When a fruit salad, a lover, or a jazz trio is just too imperfect for our tastes, we stop eating, kissing, and listening. But the law of large numbers suggests that when a measurement is too imperfect for our tastes, we should not stop measuring. Quite the opposite - we should measure again and again until niggling imperfections yield to the onslaught of data.

We often understand something better when we see it in comparison with something else than when we see it in isolation.

The second way to self-distance is through time. We can enlist the same capacity for time travel that gives birth to regret to analyze and strategize about learning from these regrets.

In general the left hemisphere participates in the analysis of information," says a neuroscience primer. "In contrast, the right hemisphere is specialized for synthesis; it is particularly good at putting isolated elements together to perceive things as a whole.