Chance News 79: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
==Quotations== | ==Quotations== | ||
"... risk, essentially, is measurable whereas uncertainty is not measurable." | "... risk, essentially, is measurable whereas uncertainty is not measurable." | ||
<div align=right>--Nate Silver, writing in [http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/herman-cain-outlier/#more-18209 Herman Cain, | <div align=right>--Nate Silver, writing in [http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/herman-cain-outlier/#more-18209 Herman Cain, outlier], FiveThirtyEight blog, ''New York Times'', 27 October 2011 | ||
</div> | </div> | ||
He continues: "In Mr. Cain’s case, I think we are dealing with an instance where there is considerable ''uncertainty''." | He continues: "In Mr. Cain’s case, I think we are dealing with an instance where there is considerable ''uncertainty''." |
Revision as of 16:03, 3 November 2011
Quotations
"... risk, essentially, is measurable whereas uncertainty is not measurable."
--Nate Silver, writing in Herman Cain, outlier, FiveThirtyEight blog, New York Times, 27 October 2011
He continues: "In Mr. Cain’s case, I think we are dealing with an instance where there is considerable uncertainty."
Submitted by Paul Alper