Conclusion Quote by Thomas Sowell

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

— Evan Esar

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

— Rex Stout

When an economist says the evidence is "mixed," he or she means that theory says one thing and data says the opposite.

— Richard Thaler

Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.

— W. Allen Wallis

Fairness is not about statistical equality.

— John Bercow

“Descriptive statistics exist to simplify, which always implies some loss of nuance or detail.”

— Charles Wheelan

Sometimes one must make extended conclusions from limited data.

— Jim Peebles

All intimacies are based on differences.

— Henry James

Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.

— Ebbe Skovdahl

Statistics are like miniskirts, they reveal more than what they hide.

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

“Probability is orderly opinion and inference from data is nothing other than the revision of such opinion in the light of relevant new information.”

— Eliezer S. Yudkowsky

“Statistics are no substitue for judgement.”

— Henry Clay