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.

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.

The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.

I am a strong, black, lesbian woman. Every time I say it, I feel so much better.

Abundance is not the absence of scarcity; it is the presence of abundant mentality.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

I have a lot of stamina and I have a lot of resilience.

Get busy living or get busy dying.

Once in a while, I have to pinch myself to remind myself I am Nobel laureate, but that is not part of my work plan every day.

In almost any profession, even if you're the kid of an actor, people are very supportive and want to see the next generation.

When I die, just keep playing the records.

Yeah, my family is of Indian heritage.

I like to say, 'You get as much story as you can take.' But you have to effectively render it.

When he was running, my thinking was, 'I can't believe my governor is running for president.' By the end of Clinton's first year in office, I was like, 'Wow, I must not be a Democrat.'

Usually, when you make a decision in life, unless you have access to parallel universes, you can't truly judge how right that decision was.

It was more like having unwanted attention as a child - if you'd walk around, people would recognize you, and it would be in a weird, almost making-fun-type manner.

I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.

My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.

My brother and sister had a much worse childhood, I think, because they were older, and they had to deal with a lot more racism because they grew up in the '70s and I grew up more in the '80s. So they had to deal with crosses being burned on their lawn and their dogs being poisoned.

I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.

If you're lucky enough to have a position where people listen to you, you should say stuff you believe in - but not if you're Jenny McCarthy. Then you should shut up. But if you're right, like Amy Poehler, then speak up.

I don't have a boss. Well, I have a boss: the public. If the public doesn't buy my books, I would be out of a job.

Journalists immediately think of me as a resource for a quote or comment because they know that I will be available to offer fresh insight and meet their deadlines.

It's much more interesting to try and understand what binds two people together. Why we stay with each other is much more of a mystery than why we don't.

I work on stories rather than individual pictures.

I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.