The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
All we know about the world teaches us that the effects of A and B are always different-in some decimal place-for any… — John Tukey 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
What the use of P [the significance level] implies, therefore, is that a hypothesis that may be true may be rejected because… — Harold Jeffreys Copy Share Image
The subjectivist states his judgements, whereas the objectivist sweeps them under the carpet by calling assumptions knowledge, and he basks in the… — I. J. Good Copy Share Image
“the “data scientist,” which combines the skills of the statistician, software programmer, infographics designer, and storyteller.” — Viktor Mayer-Schönberger Copy Share Image
The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians. — Sylvia Porter Copy Share Image
Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people,… — Bobby Bragan Copy Share Image
There are nature and nurture components to virtually every behavior a human experiences. The research effort lies only in finding the relevant… — John Medina Copy Share Image
Modern statisticians are familiar with the notion that any finite body of data contains only a limited amount of information on any… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Years ago a statistician might have claimed that statistics deals with the processing of data. . . to-days statistician will be more… — Herman Chernoff Copy Share Image
The statistician cannot excuse himself from the duty of getting his head clear on the principles of scientific inference, but equally no… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up… — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment. — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either. ” — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician. — Robert Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Don't be a novelist --- be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination. — Darrell Huff Copy Share Image
To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
“Data scientist (noun): Person who is better at statistics than any software engineer and better at software engineering than any statistician. —… — Rachel Schutt Copy Share Image
Finding oil is a multidisciplinary science. You need a lot of people - statisticians, engineers, and geologists, of course. And what I… — Eike Batista Copy Share Image
I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I'm joking, but who would've guessed… — Hal Varian Copy Share Image
To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
If a chess statistician were to try and satisfy his curiousity over which stage of the game proved decisive in the majority… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
Another merit of home is that it preserves the diversity between individuals. If we were all alike, it might be convenient for… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
“I keep notations, like my mother. She had notebook after notebook of trials and errors, all written in her perfect penmanship on… — Christa Parrish Copy Share Image
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