This apology for a lurid pack of lies in The Mikado has long been compared with statistics. Of course it's unjust. Nevertheless, investigation shows that statistics, widely used to interpret the past and present and forecast the future, to determine or justify public policy, are often ...
Lies, damned lies and statistics (about TEDTalks) 2,666,842 plays| Sebastian Wernicke | TED2010 • February 2010Takeaways Share Save LikeRead transcript In a brilliantly tongue-in-cheek analysis, Sebastian Wernicke turns the tools of statistical analysis on TEDTalks, to come up with ...
Derisive comments about statistics were common, as evidenced by the opening quotation from Mark Twain and the famous statement of Benjamin Disraeli (1) that there are 3 kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. One of my mentors quipped that if he said to a desk “arise” 100 ...
‘Lies, damned lies, and statistics’ Mark Twain’s famous quote rather sums up my current feelings about the state of the US economy. This is the most important single indicator of future chemical industry sales. And a couple of months ago, Ialigned myself with Warren Buffettin suggesting ...
“Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics:” Preferential Attachment-type Network Models of the Internet Walter Willinger AT&T Labs-Research walter@research.att 2 Acknowledgments Main Collaborators • John Doyle (Caltech) • David Alderson (Caltech) ...
英语翻译 1.Mark Twain said there are three kinds of lies:lies,damned lies,and statistics. 2.Currency is a type of money that bears no interest.相关知识点: 试题来源: 解析 1,Mark Twain said there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. 意思是马克吐温说,世上有三种...
byDR.JAYMEA.SOKOLOW B enjaminDisraeli,VictorianEngland’smostfamousprime minister,oncesaidtherewerethreekindsoflies:“lies, damnedlies,andstatistics.”Thereareactually countlessformsofmathematicalchicanery allaroundus,especiallywhenwebegincalculating thenumberofcreativewaysweusestatisticsto winarguments,sellproducts...
A couple of weeks ago Cloudflare, one of our competitors, claimed that their edge compute platform is roughly three times as fast as Compute@Edge. The false claim is a great example of how statistics can be used to mislead.
Lies, Damned Lies..."There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics" – Mark TwainHome Demystifying Data Science Part I: What is Data Science? Part II: Data Science vs Analytics Part III: Data Wrangling Part IV: Models and Machine Learning Part V: AutoML Online Adve...
Not so in real life. Mark Twain said, also famously, “There are lies, damned lies and statistics.” Below are some statistics regarding the US labour situation from ‘reliable’ sources that were announced during the past week. U.S. businesses shed 301,000 jobs in January, ADP says, in...