Statistician Quotes

42 quotes by 37 authors

Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician. — Robert Rodriguez
Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A… — Wystan Hugh Auden
It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound social change long… — Wayne Swan
Good stories are not written by people who live in a city of dirty strip malls, forced to listen to the machinated opinions of lawyers,… — Spencer Antle
Don't be a novelist --- be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination. — Darrell Huff
Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start… — George Brett
One thing about cold weather: it brings out the statistician in everyone. — Paul Theroux
Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census. — Rob Lowe
The statistician cannot excuse himself from the duty of getting his head clear on the principles of scientific inference, but equally no other thinking man… — Ronald Fisher
The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians. — Sylvia Porter
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either. — Evan Esar
To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say… — Ronald Fisher
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. — E. M. Forster
Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance. — Steven Pinker
If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes.… — Anna Quindlen
Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players. So the amateur… — Douglas Rushkoff
This spiritualist, this statistician, what are you anyway? — Thomas Pynchon
The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician. — Tom Rath
To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be… — Ronald Fisher
If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment — Ernest Rutherford

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