“Normal is a statistical invention. Not a desirable personality trait.” — Danielle Mages Amato Copy Share Image
Expectation is a statistical fiction, like having 2.5 children. — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
I don't think there is any global warming. I don't see the statistical data for that. — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
“a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing. — Hubert M. Blalock Copy Share Image
Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human races. — J. Philippe Rushton 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 is a tendency in all of us to ask for better statistical performance. There is a tendency to impose quotas behind… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“out·li·er \-,l()r\ noun 1: something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body 2: a statistical” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Whenever I read statistical reports, I try to imagine my unfortunate contemporary, the Average Person, who, according to these reports, has 0.66… — Kató Lomb Copy Share Image
I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just… — George Gallup Copy Share Image
If you think about it, 534 members of the U.S. Congress cannot all be religious. That's just statistical nonsense. Many of them… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Sanity is surely not about normality in the statistical sense: it is about an eternal and natural idea of the healthy personality… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Most of us cluster somewhere in the middle of most statistical distributions. But there are lots of bell curves, and pretty much… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
If we betake ourselves to the statistical method, we do so confessing that we are unable to follow the details of each… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
By relying on the statistical information rather than a gut feeling, you allow the data to lead you to be in the… — James O'Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
Practically everybody (1) overweighs the stuff that can be numbered, because it yields to the statistical techniques they’re taught in academia, and… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the football coaches do, or… — Bill James Copy Share Image
“So often, I see people bury themselves in mounds of data coming off their computers, hoping that some stream or other will… — Nat Greene Copy Share Image
Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations… — David Einhorn Copy Share Image
My very first publication was an estimator - this was a statistical procedure - a kind of invention. My father got a… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
If someone does a study which, for statistical reasons, I think is hopelessly underpowered or nonidentified, my best and most useful advice… — Andrew Gelman Copy Share Image
“The statistical method shows the facts in the light of the ideal average but does not give us a picture of their… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and… — Darrell Huff Copy Share Image
The statistical method is required in the interpretation of figures which are at the mercy of numerous influences, and its object is… — Austin Bradford Hill Copy Share Image
I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There's no statistical evidence that human beings have an ability to move in and out of the markets effectively. It's next to… — John W. Rogers, Jr Copy Share Image
“What are you doing a study on right now?" "A study on the statistical probablity of love at first sight.” — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
Two years later, I went to the University of Minnesota from which I was on leave for several years during the war… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
“We need a proper statistical model that lets each person have his own momentum effect and each person have his own checkout… — Herb Sorensen Copy Share Image
If you want to convince the world that a fish can sense your emotions, only one statistical measure will suffice: the p-value. — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
“That so far the material has been dealt with in a rather subjective way provokes the question whether a means can be… — Jennifer K. McArthur Copy Share Image
Some social scientists say that in-group/out-group biases are hard-wired into the human brain. Even without overt prejudice, it is cognitively convenient for… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
When we look at what has the strongest statistical relationship to overall evaluation of your life, the first one is your career… — Tom Rath Copy Share Image
Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective. — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image