Statistical Quotes
- Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective. — Temple Grandin
- There is a tendency in all of us to ask for better statistical performance. There is a tendency to impose quotas behind which usually lies… — Gordon B. Hinckley
- Most of us cluster somewhere in the middle of most statistical distributions. But there are lots of bell curves, and pretty much everyone is on… — Virginia Postrel
- Sanity is surely not about normality in the statistical sense: it is about an eternal and natural idea of the healthy personality - which indeed… — Michael Leunig
- 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 people to sort… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- By relying on the statistical information rather than a gut feeling, you allow the data to lead you to be in the right place at… — James O'Shaughnessy
- I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a… — George Gallup
- Two years later, I went to the University of Minnesota from which I was on leave for several years during the war as a member… — George Stigler
- Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have… — David Einhorn
- Common sense is just as good a critic of the lottery as any statistical breakdown — Hunter Baker
- You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so… — John Von Neumann
- The equations of dynamics completely express the laws of the historical method as applied to matter, but the application of these equations implies a perfect… — James Clerk Maxwell