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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 71b4a01 | The irony is that more data can often present less clarity. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 323faa3 | verisimilitude, | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 6dee522 | Therein lies the insight: Even though you will continue moving forever--with each move taking you half the remaining distance to the wall--the total distance you travel can never be more than 2 feet, which is your starting distance from the wall. For mathematical purposes, the total distance you travel can be approximated as 2 feet, which turns out to be very handy for computation purposes. A mathematician would say that the sum of this inf.. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 4bd7d77 | So, to return to the title chapter, what is the point of learning statistics? To summarize huge quantities of data. To make better decisions. To answer important social questions. To recognize patterns that can refine how we do everything from selling diapers to catching criminals. To catch cheaters and prosecute criminals. To evaluate the effectiveness of policies, programs, drugs, medical procedures, and other innovations. And to spot the.. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 3106c84 | You go to war with the army you have--not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 82713c8 | Maybe it's a stretch to blame a broader social pathology on hyper-competitive soccer parents. Still, there is not a huge downside to asking every once in a while, Why am I doing this? We will know for certain that my analysis is wrong when we see the following obituary: "Bob Smith died yesterday at the age of 74. He finished life in 186th place." | success | Charles Wheelan | |
| 1331df4 | economy is the art of making the most of life." Economics is the study of how we do that." | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 8b1241f | Even the most complex financial systems can thrive or fail depending on whether people believe they will thrive or fail. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 10c304c | Prices are supposed to transmit information in a market economy; inflation obscures that mechanism. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 692ed33 | Statistical malfeasance has very little to do with bad math. Judgement an integrity turn out to be surprisingly important. A detailed knowledge of statistics does not deter wrongdoing any more than a detailed knowledge of the law averts criminal behavior. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| b28a962 | Inflation of all kinds devalues everything it infects. It obscures information and so distorts behaviour. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 4d9f781 | Descriptive statistics can be like online dating profiles: technically accurate and yet pretty darn misleading. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 510f48e | The beauty of the normal distribution - its Michael Jordan power, finesse, and elegance - comes from the fact that we know by definition exactly what proportion of the observations in a normal distribution lie within one standard deviation of the mean (68.2 percent), within two standard deviations of the mean (95.4 percent), within three standard deviations of the mean (99.7 percent), and so on. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 4c13faa | The challenge with any "before and after" kind of analysis is that just because one thing follows another does not mean that there is a causal relationship between the two." | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 368e682 | For as long as there have been creditors and debtors--which is a darn long time--creditors have tried to protect the value of the currency and debtors have sought to devalue it. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| dfefc0c | An aside that will appeal to the well-rounded reader: A creative high that increases physical and mental work capacity is accompanied by noradrenaline secretion. Perhaps this explains why the samurai were equally proficient at war and poetry. | Pavel Tsatsouline | ||
| 4c427b9 | Torah is God's book of humanity, and each of us is a chapter in its unfinished story. | Jonathan Sacks | ||
| 0893c8d | When the Russian kettlebell meets an American steak, it is a beautiful thing. | Pavel Tsatsouline | ||
| e4e2e58 | If you think you are only strong if you can lift a certain number, whatever that number is, you will feel pretty weak most of the time. Strength is not a data point; it's not a number. It's an attitude. | Pavel Tsatsouline | ||
| b532aec | The kettlebell is an ancient Russian weapon against weakness. | Pavel Tsatsouline | ||
| 531bfb3 | Academician Amosov's '1000 Moves' Morning 'Recharge' Complex 1. Squat -100 repetitions 2. Side bends -100 repetitions 3. Pushups on the floor -50 repetitions 4. Forward bends -100 repetitions 5. Straight arm lateral raises overhead -100 repetitions 6. Torso turns -50 repetitions 7. Roman chair situps -100 repetitions 8. One legged jumps in place -100 repetitions per leg 9. Bringing the elbows back -100 repetitions 10. 'The birch tree' -hold.. | Pavel Tsatsouline | ||
| 1edd45b | It does not matter if you can do 1,000 punches if none of them can knock out your little sister. | Pavel Tsatsouline | ||
| 83dd836 | This is how powerlifting world champion Donnie Thompson swings. This is kime. Thompson took his deadlift from 766 to 832, and added 100 pounds to his bench press in nine months with hard style kettlebell training. | Pavel Tsatsouline | ||
| 97b4862 | doing the perfect kettlebell swing alone is superior to 99 percent of the sophisticated strength and conditioning programs out there. | Pavel Tsatsouline | ||
| 8d75d06 | Because a lady wearing high heels leaves deeper footprints than an elephant. | Pavel Tsatsouline | ||
| 1b38efd | Every two weeks take a kettlebell one or more sizes lighter than the one you are currently swinging. Pick a swing variation--two-arm, one-arm, hand-to-hand, mixed--and enjoy the pain. | Pavel Tsatsouline | ||
| 95922d4 | Some of us are silent sufferers of a noisy disease. | quiet suffering | Amy Hempel | |
| 6c35eaa | There is a method in man's wickedness-- It grows up by degrees. | Beaumont and Fletcher | ||
| 7dc22a0 | kthyr m njd 'SHb lsyrt y`lqwn tmy'm jlb@ llHZ w 'shy shkhSy@ mthl m yD` mdr lmktb Swr w 'GrD shkhSy@ fhm yf`lwn dhlk ltmyyz Hdwdhm ljGrfy@ lfrdy@ | Desmond Morris | ||
| 74f8d56 | The only reason why we are always having the doctrine of original sin instilled into us, in one form or another, is that the artificial conditions of the super-tribe keep on working against our biological altruism, and it needs all the help it can get. | Desmond Morris | ||
| c92baa4 | As a species we may be technologically clever and philosophically brilliant, but we have not lost our animal property of being physically active; | Desmond Morris | ||
| 82405c6 | Hemos llegado al punto en que debemos dejar de sentirnos satisfechos, la solucion es evidente: reducir el ritmo de la natalidad, sin poner obstaculos a la estructura social existente; evitar un aumento en cantidad, sin impedir un aumento en calidad. | extincion humanos malthus poblacion | Desmond Morris | |
| 5a8ad59 | Detras de la fachada de la ciudad moderna, sigue morando el viejo mono desnudo. Solo los nombres han cambiado: en vez de caza, decimos "trabajo"; en vez de campo de caza, "barrio comercial", en vez de cubil, "hogar", en vez de apareamiento, "matrimonio"; en vez de companera, "esposa", etcetera." | humanos moderno sociedad | Desmond Morris | |
| b5f6949 | Por estudios realizados sobre otras especies en estado de superpoblacion experimental, sabemos que llega un momento en el que el aumento de densidad de poblacion alcanza un punto extremo en el que se destruye toda la estructura social. | extincion malthus poblacion superpoblacion | Desmond Morris | |
| d3521a9 | As a species we are a predominantly intelligent and exploratory animal, and beliefs harnessed to this fact will be the most beneficial for us. A belief in the validity of the acquisition of knowledge and a scientific understanding of the world we live in, the creation and appreciation of aesthetic phenomena in all their many forms, and the broadening and deepening of our range of experiences in day-to-day living, is rapidly becoming the 're.. | belief immortality literature religion science | Desmond Morris | |
| c9b2e6c | Thou will scarce be a man before thy mother. | Beaumont and Fletcher | ||
| c98cd2f | What's one man's poison, signor,Is another's meat or drink. | Beaumont and Fletcher | ||
| a15c4cf | Here is what you do. You ease yourself into a tub of water, you ease yourself down. You lie back and wait for the ripples to smooth away. Then you take a deep breath, and slide your head under, and listen for the playfulness of your heart. | Amy Hempel | ||
| 651afbd | For peace of mind I will lie about any thing at any time. | Amy Hempel | ||
| 87e21c8 | Ho esagerato ancora prima di cominciare, perche e vero: niente e mai grave quanto potrebbe essere. | esagerare gravità verità | Amy Hempel | |
| c35ca61 | E penso a quel detto che ripetono sempre tutti: "la vita e dura... e poi muori". A dire il vero, non e affatto cosi. Questo lo dicono loro. La vita e dura: su questo hanno ragione. Ma quei giorni che dovrebbero essere la parte peggiore? Su questo si sbagliano. E' la tua vita, il resto della tua vita, la parte peggiore." | morte pensare sbagliare vita | Amy Hempel | |
| e00b89f | Mi immaginavo noi due che cuocevamo le mele per Natale, quegli stupidi quadretti romantici alla Currier e Ives... pensavo per tutto il tempo: A volte quello che abbiamo passa per amore, quando invece avrei dovuto pensare: L'amore passa. | coppia immaginare natale quadro romantico tempo | Amy Hempel | |
| bd84379 | He turned off the freeway onto a wide commercial drive of franchised food and failing business. The | Amy Hempel | ||
| ee9100b | while the world worlds up at us." I" | Amy Hempel |