The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details. — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
There is something in statistics that makes it very similar to astrology. — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Ninety-five percent of all statistics, including this one, are bogus. — Keith Waterhouse Copy Share Image
Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive. — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
This is a dishonest administration, because it is becoming clear that the unemployment statistics of the [Barack] Obama administration are not believable. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted… — John Tukey Copy Share Image
Statistics can be so misleading. It is funny, though, how often at the moment you see one team had 60 per cent… — Neil Warnock Copy Share Image
We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it. — Henry James Copy Share Image
'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.' — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one… — Robert Sternberg Copy Share Image
I'm a mathematician. I can trade in facts about false positives and absolute truths about accuracy and statistics with complete confidence. — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
This is not a dictatorship, this is based upon scientific evidence to support a given project. If you want to put up… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The Wonderful pistachios campaign is a great example - I don't involve myself with a project I don't feel passionate about. I… — John Cena Copy Share Image
And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
My work shows how important it is that independent researchers should have access to data so that government statistics can be checked… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
Most memoirs about alcoholism, promiscuity, and addiction are deep, sobering tales full of scars that will never heal and include alarming statistics… — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
There's always been a shortage of roles for three-dimensional women, no matter what age. If you look at the statistics on women… — Sally Field Copy Share Image
Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics… — Edward Burnett Tylor Copy Share Image
My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
“The state office for statistics on Hans-Beimler street counts everything; knows everything: how many pairs of shoes I buy a year: 2.3,… — Georg Dreyman Copy Share Image
What makes a terrorist? Are the drivers primarily political or economic? Princeton economist Alan Krueger has made a great study of this… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures. We succeeded because the time was right… — Bernard Nathanson Copy Share Image
The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious conclusions. Since… — Udny Yule Copy Share Image
If you enjoyed laughing in the face of death, you might like to have a crack at High Saffron. One hundred merits,… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Loyalty is dead, the experts proclaim, and the statistics seem to bear them out. On average, U.S. corporations now lose half their… — Fred Reichheld Copy Share Image
The Government are extremely fond of amassing great quantities of statistics. These are raised to the nth degree, the cube roots are… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
"[My Beautiful] Dark [Twisted] Fantasy" and "Watch the Throne": neither was nominated for Album of the Year, and I made both of… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
What used to be called prejudice is now called a null hypothesis. — A. W. F. Edwards Copy Share Image
What money can buy has very little value beyond the necessaries of life. — George Griffith Copy Share Image
It's not always statistics that determine the best player, especially the quarterback. — Troy Aikman Copy Share Image
Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind. — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination. — Vin Scully Copy Share Image
If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
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