Business Quote by Peter Bruce

“Significance unfortunately is a useful means toward a personal ends in the advance of science - status and widely distributed publications, a big laboratory,…

— Stephen Thomas Ziliak

“But the significance test that scientists use doesn’t measure importance.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

In the real world of research, conventional tests of [statistical] significance seem almost worthless.

— Fischer Black

Results are more important than the time it takes to achieve them.

— Anonymous

There's a tremendous popular fallacy which holds that significant research can be carried out by trying things. Actually it is easy to show that…

— Edwin Land

“So often, I see people bury themselves in mounds of data coming off their computers, hoping that some stream or other will yield an…

— Nat Greene

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

— Evan Esar

“It is often true that groundbreaking discoveries are made from poor data at the leading edge”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Don't let the fear of statistics keep you from launching a continual improvement program. The statistics hurdle is easily overcome, going out of business…

— John Novak

There is a tendency in all of us to ask for better statistical performance. There is a tendency to impose quotas behind which usually…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“Nowhere is the nexus between statistics and data science stronger than in the realm of prediction — specifically the prediction of an outcome (target)…

— Peter Bruce

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this…

— Edward de Bono