"Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data."

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Source : Director of the Future of Humanity Institute Nick Bostrom, Nick Bostrom (2013). “Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy”, p.1, Routledge

Nick Bostrom

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“There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.”
“If you look at the careers of great entrepreneurs and you look at the moment they took their plunge, the plunge is rarely a great financial or material risk, itâ€™s a social risk. At the moment they started their new businesses, everyone around them said â€˜youâ€™re an idiotâ€™.”
“When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you',”
“Cities that tend of have better schools for middle-income families, they tend to have much better prospects for kids moving up in the income distribution.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone; and you have no longer an aristocratical, no longer a democratical spirit. Did you ever read of any revolution in a nation, brought about by the punishment of those in power, inflicted by those who had no power at all?”
“There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.”
“I never did mind about the little things.”
“To identify your own idols, ask questions like these: What things take the place of God in my life? Where do I find my significance and my confidence? What things make me really angry? Anger usually erupts when an idol gets knocked off the shelf.”

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