Basically, I'm not interested in doing research and I never have been. I'm interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it
— David Blackwell
Getting numbers is easy; getting numbers you can trust is hard.
— Ron Kohavi, Diane Tang, Ysa Xu (from Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments)
Recommended reading
- Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment — Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein
- The Book of Why — Judea Pearl & Dana McKenzie
- The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist — Richard Feynman
- Sustainable Energy — Without the Hot Air — David MacKay
- The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data — David Spiegelhalter
- Knock on Wood: Luck, Chance, and the Meaning of Everything — Jeffrey S. Rosenthal