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
It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound… — Wayne Swan 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
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
[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process. — George E. P. Box 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
61% of graduating teens have had sex, 37% will eventually have sex, and 2% become statisticians. — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard. — John Tukey 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
I may remark parenthetically that the modern apparatus of the theory of small samples, once it goes beyond the determination of its… — Norbert Wiener 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
According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I'm not a statistician, but it doesn't take a genious to work out that 100 million children being denied an education is… — Anonymous 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
While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
One thing about cold weather: it brings out the statistician in everyone. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion — George Bernard Shaw 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
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
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
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