Statistician Quotes

42 quotes by 38 authors

I'm not a statistician, but it doesn't take a genious to work out that 100 million children being denied an education is ridiculous. There is… — Scarlett Johansson
If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment. — Ernest Rutherford
The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious conclusions. Since the statistician can… — Udny Yule
Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops. — P.G. Wodehouse
I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I'm not kidding. — Hal Varian
Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models. — George E. P. Box
The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard. — John Tukey
While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one… — Arthur Conan Doyle
According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians. — Ambrose Bierce
Years ago a statistician might have claimed that statistics deals with the processing of data. . . to-days statistician will be more likely to say… — Herman Chernoff
The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action. — W. Edwards Deming
It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon. — Robert Hooke
I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I'm joking, but who would've guessed that computer engineers… — Hal Varian
The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions to… — John T. Flynn
Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation — Lillian Hellman
If a chess statistician were to try and satisfy his curiousity over which stage of the game proved decisive in the majority of cases, he… — Alexander Kotov
Finding oil is a multidisciplinary science. You need a lot of people - statisticians, engineers, and geologists, of course. And what I have learned in… — Eike Batista
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together. — Friedrich Engels
Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides-that of the breeder, the experimenter, the statistician, the physiologist,… — Edwin Conklin
Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician. — Nate Silver

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