Statistician Quotes

The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.

— Sylvia Porter

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

— Friedrich Engels

The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.

— W. Edwards Deming

The statistician cannot evade the responsibility for understanding the process he applies or recommends.

— Ronald Fisher

Nothing is more destructive than the gap between people's perceptions of their own day-to-day economic well-being and what politicians and statisticians are…

— Nicolas Sarkozy

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

— E. M. Forster

I have been accused of being ignorant of economics (although I am the founder and Chairman of the Board of a company…

— Lloyd deMause

Modern statisticians are familiar with the notion that any finite body of data contains only a limited amount of information on any…

— Ronald Fisher

My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I…

— Claude Shannon

Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.

— Bradley Efron

We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in…

— Michael Lewis

Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.

— George E. P. Box

Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides-that of the breeder, the experimenter, the…

— Edwin Conklin

The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.

— Tom Rath

Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players.…

— Douglas Rushkoff

This spiritualist, this statistician, what are you anyway?

— Thomas Pynchon

There are nature and nurture components to virtually every behavior a human experiences. The research effort lies only in finding the relevant…

— John Medina

Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians…

— W. H. Auden

Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

— John von Neumann

I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I'm not kidding.

— Hal Varian

Olympics are three times more likely to be employed than people of a similar age, ethnic and socioeconomic status who have not…

— Timothy Shriver

Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around…

— George Brett

Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.

— Rob Lowe

Good stories are not written by people who live in a city of dirty strip malls, forced to listen to the machinated…

— Spencer Antle

The median is not the message,

— Stephen Jay Gould