Statistics Quotes

In my opinion, defining intelligence is much like defining beauty, and I don’t mean that it’s in the...

Outside of the killings, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.

Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]

Who needs theory when you have so much information? But this is categorically the wrong attitude to ...

Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge i...

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of men...

In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of para...

The obvious cure for the tragic shortcomings of human intuition in a high-tech world is education. A...

Also, even if technocrats provide reasonable estimates of a risk, which itself is an iffy enterprise...

I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are th...

Information or allegations reflecting negatively on individuals or groups seen less sympathetically ...

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited a...

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission s...

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Statistics say that a range of mental disorders affects more than one in four Americans in any given...

Dawes observed that the complex statistical algorithm adds little or no value. One can do just as we...

Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, th...

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the stat...

If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

Flo especially took me in hand. When I felt I had to prove the existence of discrimination with stat...

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, ...

A certain elementary training in statistical method is becoming as necessary for everyone living in ...

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of...

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. Bu...

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out ...