The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Quotes about probability (16 Quotes)
When you don't have any idea about something which happened in the history, or something which about to occur in the future, there is one way to deal with that. Calculate it rationally, with 50 probability of getting the wrong answer, then believe the rest spiritually, with a full hope of getting the right answer.
The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake.
Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.
The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just it shall not deter me.
Northrop Grumman remains fully committed to proceeding forward as we believe our offer is clearly superior and does not create a monopoly, and therefore has a greater probability of gaining regulatory approval.
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions.
Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that.
Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view.
We had two objectives from the very beginning No. 1, to get a strong WTO accession agreement that's good for the United States, and No. 2, to handle it in such a way as to have the highest probability of success in Congress,
In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false, but whether there is sufficient probability that it is true.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.
The uniformity of earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled.
That appointment got people scurrying back to their probability tables for the next Fed chairman, thinking the net might be wider and the person picked might be less credentialed, and that got people nervous.