Error Rate Quotes

I've never been under the illusion that everybody on death row is innocent - far from it. My own guess is upwards of 90 percent are guilty. But a ten percent error rate if that's what it is, or even five percent, is really way too high.

People don't realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but that's as far as we go. And I've had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward. The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.

We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.

Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.

It turns out synthesizing DNA is very difficult. There are tens of thousands of machines around the world that make small pieces of DNA - 30 to 50 letters in length - and it's a degenerate process, so the longer you make the piece, the more errors there are.

This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.

You throw 40 times a game when you're first starting out, it's a crash course.

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

Half the things I've done are wrong, mistakes [unintelligible]. The moratorium on pot and LSD a year ago is ridiculous. I shouldn't have done that. I make a blunder at least one out of two times I come to bat.

Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.

What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.

Football is about making mistakes. Who makes the most, loses the game.

The more time you have, the more mistakes you will make.

People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount.

No back in the history of football was ever worth two fumbles a game.

Satriani's Law: There's at least a 30% chance that someone will print the name Satriani incorrectly

I've been right more than I've been wrong.

Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.

I play in a way that means taking risks. The problem is that, from 300 passes, you make one mistake.

You can imagine: 99 percent of your experiments fail for one reason or another.

The team that wins makes minimum mistakes, and the one which loses, that one makes more mistakes than the other team.

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

I guess I set a world record for errors. I had a pretty good arm, see, but I didn't have much control.

We measure very carefully what the positives are and I think it is less than one tenth of one percent, so we are very pleased with the accuracy of our biometric checks and we continue to monitor that.