Chance News 98

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, in: "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