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But the number of meaningful relationships in the data—those that speak to causality rather than correlation and testify to how the world really works—is orders of magnitude smaller. Nor is it likely to be increasing at nearly so fast a rate as the information itself; there isn’t any more truth in the world than there was before the Internet or the printing press. Most of the data is just noise, as most of the universe is filled with empty space.
The Signal and the Noise
Nate Silver
Jesus and Paul understood a couple of important things that many of us seem to forget in our quest for rigid theological uniformity: (1) God uses people who don’t have it all together, and (2) “Not of us” doesn’t necessarily mean “Not of him.”
Accidental Pharisees
Larry Osborne
Which do you think, for example, has a higher suicide rate: countries whose citizens declare themselves to be very happy, such as Switzerland, Denmark, Iceland, the Netherlands, and Canada? or countries like Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, whose citizens describe themselves as not very happy at all? Answer: the so-called happy countries.
David and Goliath
Malcolm Gladwell
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