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The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics

by Tim Harford (Goodreads Author)

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May 08, 2023 04:25AM

“Everyone alive in the tenth century who left descendants is the ancestor of every living European today, including Charlemagne, and his children Drogo, Pippin and, of course, not forgetting Hugh. If”
― Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

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“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them.”
― John Waters

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“Challenge yourself to find the good and beautiful thing inside of everyone. It’s there. It’s your job to find it. Not their job to show you.”
― Mark Manson, Models: Attract Women Through Honesty

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“We sometimes forget that though the data should be pure and straightforward, science is done by people, who are never either.”
― Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes

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“Following the Post Modernist route, we may indeed never arrive at meaning, but not because meaning is not there... only because we are lost in endless linguistic games that are entirely beside the point.”
― Massimo Pigliucci, Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk

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