Data Quote by Ian Hacking Download Open image “Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.” — Ian Hacking ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Data Education Facts States Statistics Study Systematic
Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of natural phenomena. — Maurice Kendall Copy Share Image
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty. — W. Allen Wallis Copy Share Image
Statistics may be defined as the discipline concerned with the treatment of numerical data derived from groups of individuals. — Peter Armitage Copy Share Image
Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Statistics became what it still is today: a form of political rhetoric. The categories that statisticians had to develop were reified in the hands… — Jürgen Osterhammel Copy Share Image
[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Statistics are just a compilation of people's stories put on paper, and legislation is our attempt to address those real challenges for people. — Pramila Jayapal Copy Share Image
Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch of mathematics.… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
One ought to begin an analysis of power from the ground up, at the level of tiny local events where battles are unwittingly enacted… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
It is possible to argue that our present conception of revolution was staked out more securely in science than in political action. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences,… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
As a political metaphor, a revolution could, in that sense, mean only a return to better times, or to the true constitution: a ridding… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
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Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off a cliff… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things. — Ebbe Skovdahl Copy Share Image
Unlike return, however, risk is no more quantifiable at the end of an investment that it was at its beginning. Risk simply cannot be… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
[Brazil] went to the UN and said, "We need new standards for this." We need to take a look at what they're calling "data… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
We're living in a technological world. You cannot tell me we can't do a better job getting that information. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
You cannot have 300-some million Americans - and really, right, the global citizenry be at risk of having their phone conversations intercepted with a… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
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