Statistical Theory Quotes by Darrell Huff

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• A difference is a difference only if it makes a difference.
• The purely random sample is the only kind that can be examined with confidence by means of statistical theory, but there is…
• It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it.
• Proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself, a cold will hang on for a week.
• Don't be a novelist --- be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination.
• The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and…
• A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's 'big lie'; it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you.

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