QUOTE A DAY - September 5, 2013

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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
I call it theory-induced blindness: once you have accepted a theory and used it as a tool in your thinking, it is extraordinarily difficult to notice its flaws. If you come upon an observation that does not seem to fit the model, you assume that there must be a perfectly good explanation that you are somehow missing. You give the theory the benefit of the doubt, trusting the community of experts who have accepted it.
--Daniel Kahneman, pg. 276 of Thinking Fast and Slow

Scientists use elaborate statistical significance tests to distinguish a fluke from real evidence. But the sad truth is that the standard methods for significance testing are often inadequate to the task.
--Thomas Siegried, former editor in chief-Science Magazine

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.
--Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda

[WMDs in Iraq and Assad gassing his own people come to mind]


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
If an academic fails to pursue an indication that his claim is wrong (and pursue it until he comprehends COMPLETELY whether the indication was signal or noise) the person is also a fraud.
--Daniel Hogendoorn

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
--Plato, from Phaedrus


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved
for what you are not.

ANSWER: André Gide, Autumn Leaves

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