Spurious Correlations Quotes & Sayings

You are what you believe yourself to be. — Paulo Coelho

Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces. — Gunnar Myrdal

Who hated as passionately as she loved, who asked questions that couldn't be answered, who — Nora Roberts

I'll be here, each day and every day on, as long as you want me to be — Nicole Williams

Racism, at the individual level, can be seen as a predictive model whirring away in billions of human minds around the world. It is built from faulty, incomplete, or generalized data. Whether it comes from experience or hearsay, the data indicates that certain types of people have behaved badly. That generates a binary prediction that all people of that race will behave that same way. Needless to say, racists don't spend a lot of time hunting down reliable data to train their twisted models. And once their model morphs into a belief, it becomes hardwired. It generates poisonous assumptions, yet rarely tests them, settling instead for data that seems to confirm and fortify them. Consequently, racism is the most slovenly of predictive models. It is powered by haphazard data gathering and spurious correlations, reinforced by institutional inequities, and polluted by confirmation bias. — Cathy O'Neil

I like to think I've grown as a writer and taken some risks, but I still consider myself to be a literary writer. — Kim Edwards

The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction - that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist - and before any science there is first of all belief. — Max Planck

Evolution taught us that adaptation is the key to survival. — Gemma Malley