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A desire not to butt into other people’s business is eighty percent of all human wisdom.”
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein
The court has repeatedly upheld the principle that the Constitution applies to some parts of the country but not others. That’s why a citizen on the mainland has a constitutional right to trial by jury, but when that citizen travels to Puerto Rico, the right vanishes.
How to Hide an Empire
Daniel Immerwahr
The lesson for me, which applies to all statistical analysis, is that even the most precise measurements or calculations should be checked against common sense.
Naked Statistics Stripping the Dread From the Data
Wheelan, Charles
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