Its important not to focus so much on the statistics, but [on people's] perceptions. — Federico Pena Copy Share Image
What's the harm of a little mystification? It sure beats boring statistical analyses. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics. — Victoria Azarenka Copy Share Image
You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
There's no handbook to parenting, there's just opinions and statistics. — Uncle Kracker Copy Share Image
Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about. — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
It's tough to make it as an actor, tougher still to make it as an actress - the Screen Actors Guild is… — Persis Khambatta Copy Share Image
I don't know the statistics, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out that a disproportionate number of comics come from broken… — Lee Mack Copy Share Image
... the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
There's nothing quite so stultifying as having someone around who has all the answers-and gives them to you. — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among… — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
To me, the main weakness of EDA is its failure to enquire why the data were collected in the first place and… — Michael Healy Copy Share Image
As a woman, it is so tough to grow your business. People are ready to hear all your creative inputs, but the… — Lara Dutta Copy Share Image
As academics we have pretty good judgment about the quality of institutions that cannot simply be measured by counting the number of… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an archaeologist. But in school you have to take a tremendous amount of statistics for that, and I… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
Good science is more than the mechanics of research and experimentation. Good science requires that scientists look inward-to contemplate the origin of… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Statistics on religious affiliation are notoriously slippery: the government isn't allowed to gather such data, and the membership claims of religious organizations… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
I have been accused of being ignorant of economics (although I am the founder and Chairman of the Board of a company… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny should take a few pointers from the mutual-fund industry. All three are trying to pull off… — Jonathan Clements Copy Share Image
There are certainly statistics which show that most people who become sociopaths, who become homicidal, who become child- abusers, have had a… — Connie Zweig Copy Share Image
“This book is an essay in what is derogatorily called "literary economics," as opposed to mathematical economics, econometrics, or (embracing them both)… — Charles P. Kindleberger Copy Share Image
“If you want what’s best for your kids, one surefire way to provide them with a healthy, happy home is to make… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
“He could not believe that any of them might actually hit somebody. If one did, what a nowhere way to go: killed… — James Jones Copy Share Image
For me, I try to look at a person's swagger and a little background on them if I already haven't liked them… — Michael Bivins Copy Share Image