Rationality Quotes May 2013

katydee

Here's another installment of rationality quotes. The usual rules apply:

Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be upvoted or downvoted separately. (If they are strongly related, reply to your own comments. If strongly ordered, then go ahead and post them together.)
Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote from Less Wrong itself, Overcoming Bias, or HPMoR.
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

Here's another installment of rationality quotes. The usual rules apply:

Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be upvoted or downvoted separately. (If they are strongly related, reply to your own comments. If strongly ordered, then go ahead and post them together.)
Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote from Less Wrong itself, Overcoming Bias, or HPMoR.
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

"Stats are so f**\ng stupid, ya know? Not that they’re stupid, its the way people apply them. You already have your mind made up, and then you go to imright.com and you start memorizing a bunch of s\t and just throw it up at people." -Bill Burr

Various poorly-attributed quotes would point out that this way of going about uses statistics like a drunk uses a lamppost -- for support, not illumination.

4Estarlio13y

I don't see how this is particularly insightful in all honesty. Just seems like cheer-leading for the most people are stupid crowd.

2JoshuaZ13y

There's a valid point to this quote, about the problem of using statistics and other data to support a bottom line. But that's not to say that "stats" themselves are stupid, and I suspect that's why this is being downvoted.

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