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For this reason, TDM critics say the forecast accuracies—or lack thereof—are almost besides the point, because any project that changes the built environment will alter the way people behave. The question is not whether the predictions of how they will behave are accurate, but what kind of behavior we want to have more of.
The Broken Algorithm That Poisoned American Transportation
vice.com
Each observation in our height and weight data set has a residual, which is its vertical distance from the regression line, except for those observations that lie directly on the line, for which the residual equals zero.
Naked Statistics
Charles Wheelan
In Carboniferous forests dragonflies grew as big as ravens. Trees and other vegetation likewise attained outsized proportions. Horsetails and tree ferns grew to heights of fifty feet, club mosses to a hundred and thirty.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
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