quotes about Inference
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The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.
-- Ben Bernanke -
Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.
-- Bill Nye -
Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data.
-- Nick BostromSource : Director of the Future of Humanity Institute Nick Bostrom, Nick Bostrom (2013). “Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy”, p.1, Routledge
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You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
-- Richard Dawkins -
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Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
-- Richard Wright -
The death rate is a fact; anything beyond this is an inference.
-- William Farr -
An observation, strictly, is only a sensation. Nobody means that we should reject everything but sensations. But as soon as we go beyond sensations we are making inferences.
-- Harold JeffreysSource : Harold Jeffreys (1998). “The Theory of Probability”, p.412, OUP Oxford