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Statistical Quotes by Darrell Huff
- 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…
- 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…
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- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- ...the institutional arrangement whereby most professional economists are heavily burdened with teaching and administrative duties may militate against a sufficient admixture of… — Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod
- The General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness of being exceptional a little… — Samuel R. Delany
- It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven — Josh Billings
- There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe. — Robert A. Heinlein
- The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws must be… — Werner Heisenberg
- I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies];… — Alfred Binet
- The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue. — James Wolfensohn