#outcomes

One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails of the probability distributions we are using are too thin, our VAR measures are likely to be too low. ↗

— John Hull

#concerns #earlier #extreme #fat #i

One of the jewels in the crown of Labour's time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the Commonwealth Fund, the London School of Economics and the Nuffield Foundation have all shown, health reforms as well as additional investment were essential to improved outcomes, especially for poorer patients. ↗

— David Miliband

#commonwealth #crown #economics #especially #essential

Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#chances #changes #enthusiasm #excuse #going

We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#better #children #disservice #evidence #families

I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations. ↗

— David Axelrod

#committed #concerned #consumed #i #i think

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results. ↗

— Wade Boggs

#catalyst #causes #chain #events #extraordinary

The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#damaging #gradual #more #outcomes #plausible

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators. ↗

— Ben Stein

#charlatans #dictators #engineer #equal #everyone

Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives. ↗

— Larry Elder

#children #coming #divorced #father #financially

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#complex #irrational #life #messy #nothing