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<div align=right>George Udny Yule, cited by David Salsburg<br> | <div align=right>George Udny Yule, cited by David Salsburg<br> | ||
[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hfn8nmBf-HcJ:apstatsmonkey.com/StatsMonkey/ReadBestPractice_files/Salsburg.pptx+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a “Statistics and | [http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hfn8nmBf-HcJ:apstatsmonkey.com/StatsMonkey/ReadBestPractice_files/Salsburg.pptx+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a “Statistics and Experimentation”], AP Statistics Reading, June 16, 2011</div> | ||
"We value what we measure rather than measuring what we value" is an expression commonly heard in education circles these days. | "We value what we measure rather than measuring what we value" is an expression commonly heard in education circles these days. | ||
Revision as of 15:46, 22 February 2014
Quotations
"In statistics it's enough for our results to be cool. In psychology they're supposed to be correct. In economics they're supposed to be correct and consistent with your ideology."
--Andrew Gelman, "75 best lines from my Bayesian Analysis course"
Some other selections:
- “God created the world in 7 days and we haven’t seen much of him since.” (God draws θ from an urn and then is out of the picture)
- “People don’t go around introducing you to their ex-wives.” (why model improvement doesn’t make it into papers)
Submitted by Paul Alper
"In our lust for measurement, we frequently measure that which we can rather than that which we wish to measure...and forget that there is a difference."
George Udny Yule, cited by David Salsburg
“Statistics and Experimentation”, AP Statistics Reading, June 16, 2011
“Statistics and Experimentation”, AP Statistics Reading, June 16, 2011
"We value what we measure rather than measuring what we value" is an expression commonly heard in education circles these days.
Brandon Busteed, “Colleges Should Measure What They Value”, HUFF Post, June 21, 2012
Submitted by Margaret Cibes