Statistical Quotes

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The oral (Laetrile) had been 'toxified' by adding cyano-urea in the NCI...(NCI's) Mayo (Clinic) dismissed well responding patients to discard them from statistical evaluation...This kind… — Hans Alfred Nieper
The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ. — John Boyle O'Reilly
If you flip a coin three times and it lands on heads each time, itâ€™s probably chance. If you flip it a hundred times and… — T. Colin Campbell
Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from the data and… — Alison Gopnik
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
In the real world of research, conventional tests of [statistical] significance seem almost worthless. — Fischer Black
In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria has always seems to me to be the only rational position to take on life. — John Diamond
Fairness is not about statistical equality. — John Bercow
You and I are forever at the mercy of the census-taker and the census-maker. That impertinent fellow who goes from house to house is one… — Walter Lippmann
Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future... We watch our experts read the entrails of… — Eric Hoffer
The purely random sample is the only kind that can be examined with confidence by means of statistical theory, but there is one things wrong… — Darrell Huff
The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and statistical methods are… — Darrell Huff
Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Without bragging, I've been blessed to have five of the greatest statistical years for a running back. — Shaun Alexander
Practically everybody (1) overweighs the stuff that can be numbered, because it yields to the statistical techniques theyâ€™re taught in academia, and (2) doesnâ€™t mix… — Charlie Munger
Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human races. — J. Philippe Rushton
Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born. — Loren Eiseley
Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a reason, nor a… — Florence Nightingale
Obese kids watch no more television than kids who aren't obese. All the thin kids watch massive amounts of television, too. There is no statistical… — Po Bronson
Statistical projections which speak to the senses without fatiguing the mind, possess the advantage of fixing the attention on a great number of important facts. — Alexander von Humboldt

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