“In listening to stories we tend to suspend disbelief in order to be entertained, whereas in evaluating statistics we generally have an opposite inclination to suspend belief in order not to be beguiled.”
-John Allen Paulos from nytimes.com
I heard John Allen today on the Strongly Connected Components podcast.
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It’s off to Ojai we go!
Between computer science and folk dance, which one do you think I took in college?
My first stab at professional blog writing.
“…although no society in human history has ever extolled to such a high extent the value of the competitive spirit and individual effort, no society has ever been so filled with human beings that seem unable to give any effort at all.”