Entitlement
You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorantHarlan Ellison
View ArticleItalo Calvino’s humanity
This year requires an extra dose of new perspective, to make the most of time, to bring the best of people. Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a...
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Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor Cory Doctorow, Little Brother
View ArticleRouge
Valentine: If I had to go to court…are there still judges like you? The Judge: You won’t go to court. Justice doesn’t deal with the innocent. Krzysztof Kieslowski, Trois couleurs: Rouge
View ArticleThe data may not contain the answer
The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. John W Tukey in Sunset Salvo. 1986. The American...
View ArticleNot a contribution to science
Null hypotheses of no difference are usually known to be false before the data are collected … when they are, their rejection or acceptance simply reflects the size of the sample and the power of the...
View ArticleNight
All human thought, all science, all religion, is the holding of a candle to the night of the universe. The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith
View ArticleInfrequent doesn’t disprove
There is no logical warrant for considering an event known to occur in a given hypothesis, even if infrequently, as disproving the hypothesis. Joseph Berkson in “Tests of significance considered as...
View ArticleAnarchist bookshop
I am going to open an anarchist bookshop but with franchise potential. Amber in Dating Amber
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