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==Quotations== | ==Quotations== | ||
"I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not." | |||
<div align=right>--Fran Lebowitz (American author and humorist)</div> | |||
Suggested by Naomi Neff | |||
==Forsooth== | ==Forsooth== | ||
Revision as of 20:18, 8 March 2013
Quotations
"I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not."
--Fran Lebowitz (American author and humorist)
Suggested by Naomi Neff
Forsooth
“The quants have arrived at the Academy [of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]. …. The goals in making ... predictions extend beyond [Oscar night]. Dr. Rothschild [Microsoft Research economist] is testing whether surveying people online about Oscar patterns—for example, does winning best-adapted screenplay correspond with winning best picture?—is a method that can be translated to forecasting in other areas. If it works, ‘We can apply it to all sorts of other things we don't have data for,’ Dr. Rothschild said."
Carl Bialik in “And the Oscar-Pool Winners Are...the Stats Dudes”
by Carl Bialik, The Wall Street Journal, February 23, 2013
by Carl Bialik, The Wall Street Journal, February 23, 2013
Submitted by Margaret Cibes