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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.
Hannah Arendt
Odds
Overwhelming
Everyday
Statistical
Guise
Miracle
Laws
Purposes
New
Practical
Always
Probability
Happens
Which
Against
Certainty
Therefore
Appears
Amount
Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective.
Temple Grandin
Will
Analysis
Statistical
Determine
Records
Computerized
Most
Enable
Effective
Which
Used
Medical
Medical Records
Treatments
It is true that in quantum theory we cannot rely on strict causality. But by repeating the experiments many times, we can finally derive from the observations statistical distributions, and by repeating such series of experiments, we can arrive at objective statements concerning these distributions.
Werner Heisenberg
Strict
Finally
Statements
We Cannot
Statistical
Objective
Rely
Observations
True
Concerning
Quantum
Causality
Arrive
Repeating
Times
Cannot
Experiments
Derive
Theory
Many
Series
Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.
David Einhorn
You
Looking
Edge
Incomplete
Statistical
Both
Facts
Investing
Poker
Situations
Where
Psychological
Information
Whether
Certain
Games
Set
I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.
George Gallup
God
Alone
Monstrosity
Statistical
Would
Could
Individual
Take
Prove
Human
Just
Happen
Human Body
Body
Functions
Chances
Fairness is not about statistical equality.
John Bercow
Equality
Statistical
About
Fairness
Most of us cluster somewhere in the middle of most statistical distributions. But there are lots of bell curves, and pretty much everyone is on a tail of at least one of them. We may collect strange memorabilia or read esoteric books, hold unusual religious beliefs or wear odd-sized shoes, suffer rare diseases or enjoy obscure movies.
Virginia Postrel
Strange
Rare
Somewhere
Shoes
Enjoy
Everyone
Books
Statistical
At Least One
Collect
Memorabilia
Religious
Religious Beliefs
Wear
Pretty
Tail
Obscure
Most
Read
Unusual
Least
Lots
Esoteric
Diseases
May
Middle
Hold
Curves
Movies
Them
Cluster
Us
Much
Beliefs
Suffer
Bell
We need no elaborate statistical proof that trade depends on prosperity in the industrial countries.
Arthur Lewis
Prosperity
Statistical
Proof
Countries
Industrial
Trade
Depends
Elaborate
Need
Affirmative action is the most important antidiscrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination... Affirmative action, by all statistical measures, has been the central ingredient to the creation of the black middle class.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Class
Black
Important
Creation
Action
Tool
States
Statistical
Has-Been
Had
Instituted
Most
Been
Effect
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Discrimination
Middle
The Most Important
Middle Class
Central
Ingredient
Measures
United
Ever
United States
Technique
We and other groups are seeing clear statistical links between telomere shortness and risk for a variety of diseases that are becoming very common, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and certain cancers.
Elizabeth Blackburn
Diabetes
Other
Statistical
Seeing
Risk
Variety
Clear
Between
Becoming
Very
Links
Disease
Diseases
Cancers
Common
Shortness
Certain
Groups
Cardiovascular
There is a tendency in all of us to ask for better statistical performance. There is a tendency to impose quotas behind which usually lies imposition of pressure to achieve improved statistics.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Better
Achieve
Pressure
Statistical
Statistics
Lies
Tendency
Performance
Impose
Imposition
Improved
Behind
Which
Ask
Us
There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.
Ian Hart
Work
You
Internet
Thanks
Gave
Complete
Statistical
Shakespeare
True
Come
Know
Up
Them
Theory
Works
Now
Eventually
Million
Monkeys
Set
The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.
Lawrence Eagleburger
Business
Understanding
Community
Difficult
Minds
Statistical
Embassy
More
How
Question
Matrix
Than
Task
Get
Officers
American
Much
Really
Business Community
Difficult Task
National data on evictions aren't collected, although national data on foreclosures are. And so if anyone wants to, kind of, get to know any statistical research about evictions, they have to really dig in the annals of legal records.
Matthew Desmond
Legal
National
Research
Dig
Statistical
Collected
Kind
About
Data
Records
Know
Although
Get
Any
Anyone
Wants
Really
You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects.
Nate Silver
Good
You
Financial
Example
Build
Situation
Type
Respects
Statistical
Arbitrary
Pretty
New
For Example
Instrument
Well
Dealing
Making
Lot
Model
Then
Choices
Life expectancy is a statistical phenomenon. You could still be hit by the proverbial bus tomorrow.
Ray Kurzweil
Life
You
Tomorrow
Statistical
Life Expectancy
Could
Still
Proverbial
Hit
Expectancy
Bus
Phenomenon
My very first publication was an estimator - this was a statistical procedure - a kind of invention. My father got a patent and started a business; it wasn't successful, but maybe I have some of him in me.
Robert J. Shiller
Me
Business
Father
Invention
First
Statistical
Kind
Some
Him
Got
Very
Patent
Maybe
Procedure
Successful
Publication
Started
If a player digests his own statistical information in his own time, on his own laptop, tablet or whatever, without a coach standing over him, it makes it easier for him. It helps with the pressure. There's a fear factor but spending time at home analysing things can help control it.
Sam Allardyce
Time
Home
Fear
Pressure
Whatever
Own
Control
Digest
Analysing
Spending
Spending Time
Easier
Statistical
Tablet
Factor
Over
Him
Without
Makes
His
Information
Coach
Help
Standing
Laptop
Helps
Things
Player
Without bragging, I've been blessed to have five of the greatest statistical years for a running back.
Shaun Alexander
Blessed
Back
Statistical
Running
Without
Greatest
Been
Years
Bragging
Five
Statistical physics or Newtonian physics gives way to quantum physics. Very unusual properties of matter emerge at that scale, and you can think about building products in a very different way. You can think about interfacing to biology in a very different way.
Steve Jurvetson
You
Physics
Matter
Building
Think
Biology
Way
Scale
Statistical
Emerge
About
Properties
Gives
Unusual
Quantum
Quantum Physics
Very
Different
Products
Different Way
Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future.
Will Self
Future
Madness
Past
Before
Too
Statistical
Statistics
Only
Individuality
Also
Pasted
Accurate
Being
Then
Assault
Even
Image
An old friend of mine, an economist by trade, once explained to me that the statistical definition of 'dilemma' is 49.9% in favor and 50.1% against. If the gap is greater, there is no dilemma, because the answer is clear.
Yair Lapid
Me
Old
Dilemma
Once
Mine
Favor
Definition
Statistical
Clear
Economist
Greater
Because
Trade
Answer
Friend
Against
Explained
Old Friend
Gap
By relying on the statistical information rather than a gut feeling, you allow the data to lead you to be in the right place at the right time. To remain as emotionally free from the hurly burley of the here and now is one of the only ways to succeed.
James O'Shaughnessy
Time
You
Free
Feeling
Right Place
Right Time
Ways
Statistical
Gut
Gut Feeling
Data
Rather
Only
Relying
Remain
Allow
Lead
Emotionally
Than
Information
Place
Succeed
Now
Right
Here
If you think about it, 534 members of the U.S. Congress cannot all be religious. That's just statistical nonsense. Many of them are quite well-educated.
Richard Dawkins
You
Congress
Think
Statistical
Members
Religious
About
Well-Educated
Nonsense
Quite
Just
Cannot
Them
Many
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