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==Quotations==
==Quotations==
"There is no better way to build confidence in a theory than to believe it is not testable."
"There is no better way to build confidence in a theory than to believe it is not testable."
<div align=right>UChicago economist Richard Thaler in https://www.amazon.com/Misbehaving-Behavioral-Economics-Richard-Thaler/dp/1501238698 <i>Misbehaving</i>, 2015</div>
<div align=right>UChicago economist Richard Thaler in [https://www.amazon.com/Misbehaving-Behavioral-Economics-Richard-Thaler/dp/1501238698 <i>Misbehaving</i>], 2015</div>
Submitted by Margaret Cibes<br>
Submitted by Margaret Cibes<br>



Revision as of 15:59, 18 November 2016

Quotations

"There is no better way to build confidence in a theory than to believe it is not testable."

UChicago economist Richard Thaler in Misbehaving, 2015

Submitted by Margaret Cibes


Forsooth

What happened to the polls?

Why FiveThirtyEight gave Trump a better chance than almost anyone else
by Nate Silver, Fivethirtyeight.com, 11 November 2016

Putting the polling miss of the 2016 election in perspective
by Nate Cohn, Josh Katz and Kevin Quealy, 'TheUpshot' blog, New York Times, 13 November 2013

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