Statistics Quotes

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The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units. — Claude Bernard
There is a liberal bias. It's demonstrable. You look at some statistics. About 85 percent of the reporters who cover the White House vote Democratic,… — Evan Thomas
Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty. — W. Allen Wallis
You and I are forever at the mercy of the census-taker and the census-maker. That impertinent fellow who goes from house to house is one… — Walter Lippmann
I have no statistics to prove it, but I'm sure the American workplace will be adversely affected on Monday, the day after XXIV. The game… — Robert Klein
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… — Darrell Huff
I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny… — Ronald Reagan
Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of… — Wallace Stegner
Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial… — Christopher McDougall
Baseball is slovenly and excessive in midsummer, with its onrolling daily cascade of line scores and box scores, shifting statistics, highlights and lowlights, dingers and… — Roger Angell
Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it… — Guy Finley
Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of… — Jack Newfield
Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that… — Jonathan Raban
With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I… — Amity Shlaes
The statistics show that when you've done something for so long, it'll either be, yeah, you're slowing down, or someone's doing it better. But physically,… — Steven Lopez
Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with… — Mark Twain
Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet. — Robert Reich
If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth — Alan K. Simpson
In the patient who succumbed, the cause of death was evidently something which was not found in the patient who recovered; this something we must… — Claude Bernard
You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics. — Victoria Azarenka

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