Average Quote by L. Todd Rose

Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.

— Florence Nightingale

The interesting thing about averages is that they hide the truth very effectively.

— Avinash Kaushik

It's the media who love statistics.

— Virgil van Dijk

On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.

— Nate Silver

Often, people think that individual data is the most valuable thing they can collect. But it's not useful to know what I am doing…

— Hilary Mason

We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because…

— Warren G. Bennis

While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.

— Vince Lombardi

Practically everybody (1) overweighs the stuff that can be numbered, because it yields to the statistical techniques they’re taught in academia, and (2) doesn’t…

— Charlie Munger

Averages are useful because many traits, behaviors, and outcomes are distributed in a bell-shaped curve, with most results clustered around the middle and a…

— Stephanie Coontz

If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average.

— Shawn Achor

Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable circumstances and…

— Frank Schatzing

I look back on people who are not the average, and those people are not the average because they choose to put it in…

— Diego Sanchez