Dominic Grieve

Ties of loyalty play an understandably important part in how most MPs interact with their own party and the supporters who have elected and sustained them in their careers. As I know personally it is the strain put on those ties which constitutes the most unpleasant aspect of being at variance with one's own party line.

British Politician

Ben Horowitz

As a company gets big, the information that informs decision-making gets massive. Depending upon the prism through which you view the business, your perspective will vary. If two people are in charge, this variance will cause conflict and delay.

English Businessman

Marcus Buckingham

CEOs hate variance. It's the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. Variance in quality is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routinized, predictable. Stamping out variance makes a complex job a bit less complex.

British Author

Alfred de Vigny

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.

French Poet

Carol Gilligan

Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment.

American Psychologist

Susie Dent

As a nation we love our dialects, and there is a lot of regional variance in the names for different foods - barmcake, bap or bun anyone?

English Scientist

Ronald Fisher

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.

English Mathematician

Tammy Abraham

I need more left-footed goals. And shooting from outside the box - I need more variance of finishes.

English Athlete

Jonathan Swift

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

Irish Writer

Nick Kroll

The more variance I have in my days, the more exciting each thing is and the more I enjoy doing it.

American Actor

Use 'variance' to highlight contrasts in discussions or arguments.

Context Matters

'Variance' does not imply a problem; it can simply mean differences.

Not Always Negative

Avoid confusing 'variance' with 'varied'. Variance is about differences, not range or assortment.

Misunderstanding Risk

In statistics, 'variance' measures how far numbers are from the average.

Measure of Spread

Low variance suggests consistency or similarity among data points.

Consistency Clue

'Variance' in stats isn’t about deviation from a path, but from an average value.

Not Just Deviation

In legal terms, a 'variance' is a special permission that deviates from the norm.

Permission Granted

'Variance' in law doesn't mean broad freedom but a specific exception to a rule.

Specific Allowance

Obtaining a 'variance' often involves a formal application and approval process.

Legal Process

 Each of Shakespeare's works can be placed on that axis, like a data point, based on the number of occurrences of that word. In statistics, the tightness of these points gives us what is known as the variance, an expected range for our data. But, this is only a single characteristic in a very high-dimensional space.

Did Shakespeare write...

 Some families make huge capital gains. Some made bad investments. So you will always have some mobility in the wealth process. Some people will move up, some people will move down. The important point is that, in any such model, for a given variance of such shocks, the equilibrium level of wealth inequality

Thomas Piketty: New...

 revealing its variance to be a function of biology. It all centers around melanin, the pigment that gives skin and hair its color. This ingredient comes from skin cells called melanocytes and takes two basic forms. There's eumelanin, which gives rise to a range of brown skin tones,

The science of skin...

 If we asked witnesses to identify the apple in this lineup, for example, we shouldn't be surprised by a unanimous verdict. But in cases where we have reason to expect some natural variance, we should also expect varied distribution. If you toss a coin one hundred times,

Should you trust...

 But there's variance within this group and it's not efficient to go after all of them, right? So what I've done is created a highly scientific Taxonomy of Haters. I basically took all of the haters, I put them in a petri dish, like a scientist, and this is what I found.

A highly scientific...

 and through cyberattacks on U.S. and global firms. Furthermore, the United States says that the Chinese political system is fundamentally wrong because it's at such fundamental variance to the human rights, democracy, and rule of law that we enjoy

Are China and the US...

 hours but our subjective perception of each day can vary widely some days go by quickly and others not so quickly so in the moment what produces is variance and how we experience time passing well it turns out that experiences that contain very

Time is memory and you...

 claim to know a trans person in real life. So for the other 84 percent, this may seem like a new topic. But trans people are not new. Gender variance is older than you think, and trans people are part of that legacy.

A short history of trans...

 That makes our bodies go into a decline, which eventually results in disease and death. But if that's consistently true, why the huge variance in aging patterns and lifespan within the animal kingdom?

Why do animals have such...

 yet a team of researchers have found that these programs explained only 0.1 percent of the variance in financial behaviors. Not zero, but pretty close to it.