Correlations In Statistics Quotes & Sayings

Lilah did little more than sleep and eat and cry, which to me was the most fascinating thing in the entire universe. Why did she cry? When did she sleep? What made her eat a lot one day and little the next? Was she changing with time? I did what any obsessed person would do in such a case: I recorded data, plotted it, calculated statistical correlations. First I just wrote on scraps of paper and made charts on graph paper, but I very quickly became more sophisticated. I wrote computer software to make a beautifully colored plot showing times when Diane fed Lilah, in black; when I fed her, in blue (expressed mother's milk, if you must know); Lilah's fussy times, in angry red; her happy times, in green. I calculated patterns in sleeping times, eating times, length of sleep, amounts eaten.
Then, I did what any obsessed person would do these days; I put it all on the Web. — Mike Brown

Man can choice what to think of. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't recognize hate, I don't recognize bitterness, I don't recognize jealousy, I don't recognize greed. I don't give them power. They don't exist to me. — Karrine Steffans

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. — Agnes De Mille

In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks. — Chris Patten

If you live your life by fear, you will never fully know freedom or breakthrough. — J.D. Fisher

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness.
They are signs of strength. — Dalai Lama

I love children and I love family and I love that interaction. Because I had a really close relationship with my mother, I understand that deep powerful love, and it's so beautiful. To be a mother to a child is the most brilliant gift; it's gorgeous. — Alicia Keys

People die from hitting the wall, they hit it again and again...
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one moment it ends all and they die! — Deyth Banger

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence. — Charles Dickens

FAR FROM THE WHARF, well across the bay and almost to the open sea, was a tangle of rocks so treacherous that no captain familiar with these waters would sail his ship there. — Dave Barry

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness. — James Anthony Froude

What do you know?" I wonder, pulling Daisy's sweaty hair out of her face. Ryke gives me a solid glare. "You masturbate too much. — Krista Ritchie

Mistakes are nothing to be ashamed of. — Evan Davis

Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery. — Frank Chodorov

Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing. — Julian Baggini