Precise Result A result that can be consistently reproduced in independent experiments.

Peer Review The evaluation of a scientific report by other scientists who are experts in the same area (peers). They go through it bit by bit, examining the methods and data, and checking it's all clear and logical.

Valid Result A result that answers the question it was intended to answer.

Variable A quantity that has the potential to change.

Variable A quantity that has the potential to change.

Independent Variable The variable that you change in an experiment.

Dependent Variable The variable that you measure in an experiment.

Discrete Data Data that can only take certain values.

Continuous Data Data that can have any value on a scale.

Categoric Data Data that can be sorted into categories.

Ordered/Ordinal Data Categoric data where the categories can be put in order.

Precise Result A result that can be consistently reproduced in independent experiments.

Anomalous Result A result that doesn't fit in with the pattern of the other results in a set of data.

Correlation The relationship between two values.

Correlation The relationship between two values.

Valid Result A result which answers the question it was intended to answer.

Accurate Result A result that is close to the true answer.

Precise Result A result that can be consistently reproduced in independent experiments.

I show women growing, changing, becoming stronger in many kinds of situations.

If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying.

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

I like being in the workforce; it keeps me grounded.

Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason!

I've cooked just about everything really.

Happiness to me is simply not being unhappy.

There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude.

It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it.

I remember when 'The Right Stuff' opened in Hollywood. I got dressed that morning and drove my car down to the theatre that it was playing on, thinking that there would be mobs of people outside. When I looked, there was nobody there.

I think that the thing that is really strong with 'The Hunger Games' is just that it comes from a very strong idea.

There would be fewer divorces if men gave as much loving attention to their wives as they do their cars and jobs.

My writing process hasn't changed - it's is the same whether I'm working on a Y.A. novel or, as now, a new novel for adults. A lot of reading, a lot of research if the subject warrants it, a lot of sticky notes and scraps of paper - and get to work.

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.

The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.

I am seeing all the guys, like Earnie Shavers, Tex Cobb, and Larry Holmes all the time.

You know, 'Jake 2.0' had some funny things in it; I mean, I needed my sense of humor to do that part.

A great screenplay makes everybody step up to the bar and deliver.

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

The cruel always believe the kind are weak. But human decency and goodness can also move human affairs.

My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you're an immigrant, you know you'll never be an accepted part of society, but you hope your children will be, and you try to make them essential to the community in a practical way - being a doctor or a lawyer. Acting was beyond their comprehension.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Surely, the best and most effective measure is to get the economy moving and shorten the period of recession or slowdown. That's the rationale for Gordon Brown's 'fiscal stimulus' and it sounds like a good one to me.