Kathryn Schulz
Kathryn Schulz
Kathryn Schulz is an American journalist and author, and the former book critic for New York magazine. She joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2015. Schulz won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for feature reporting for her New Yorker article on a potential large earthquake in the Pacific Northwest...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
CountryUnited States of America
reminds
Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.
mistake wow knows
Wow. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.
mistake data errors
Unlike earlier thinkers, who had sought to improve their accuracy by getting rid of error, Laplace realized that you should try to get more error: aggregate enough flawed data, and you get a glimpse of the truth. "The genius of statistics, as Laplace defined it, was that it did not ignore errors; it quantified them," the writer Louis Menand observed. "...The right answer is, in a sense, a function of the mistakes.
mistake numbers kind
The kinds of things that we can make mistakes about are essentially unlimited in number.
almost both browse eclectic entirely eventually feels hugely inside internal lived shapes
As a kid, I lived almost entirely inside books, and eventually the books started returning the favor. A lot of my internal world feels like an anthology, or a library. It's eclectic and disorganized, but I can browse in it, and that hugely shapes both what and how I write.