Dependent Variable The variable that you measure in an experiment.

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.

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.

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

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 was a VP of marketing, I was regional sales manager in fashion, and marketing director in communications and product development. I was always a corporate Fortune 500 girl.

The fact is safe co-sleeping is not difficult. The notion of babies being smothered is simply not true. And the benefits of sleeping together are profound.

When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.

I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it; also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, and they think that because they're making money and people think well of them, they must be doing everything right.

I love westerns. John Ford is one of the 10 best directors.

For some reason, comedians are still children. The social skills somehow never reach us, so we say exactly what we think without weighing the results.

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.

I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.

Contentment The smother of invention.

I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.

Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation's leadership is not imperialism but skepticism.

Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?

If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life, which is by reading.

U.S. intelligence has the legal right to monitor foreign communications as they go through to U.S. service providers. However, even though something is legal doesn't make it right. I'm not American; I don't really care about what data is being collected about American citizens. I'm worried about us, the foreigners.

Families interest me - I'm part of one; most of us come from one. And I'm curious about the choices made in life, how they affect things, and how those choices happen.

It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.

Everything I am, everything I've been allowed to do, career-wise, has come out of the opportunity I had with 'Cheers'. I think it's one of the funniest shows ever. They are some of my best friends.

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

It's weird but I've never really been the type to have fixations on the leading man actor. I've always been drawn more to the rock star. I love a guy on the microphone commanding an audience.

I will fight for you with every breath in my body - and I will never, ever let you down.

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