Statistics Quotes
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I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat her handmaid with proper respect, and not to prostitute her services for controversial or personal purposes.
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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
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Statistics don't lie. It's the people who make up the statistics that lie.
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You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics.
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Statistics is the grammar of science.
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Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John's, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sweden. They read the textbook twice, or three times or four times.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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Since 'Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights' came out, I've done a fair amount of public speaking, and the two statistics that always make the audience sit up are that nearly one in three women will have had at least one abortion by menopause and 61 percent of women who have abortions are already mothers.
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It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN.com, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.
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Marriage counselors in particular all strongly recommend divorcees try to understand their role in a divorce before re-marrying. Statistics show if you re-marry before you've clearly seen things from the biter's point of view - you're re-bounded to fail again!
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I like - I love calculus. I love linear algebra, probability and statistics, that kind of stuff. I just really like that.
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I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.
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Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.
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When you boil down the real facts and statistics of what carbon dioxide is doing to this planet... to not feel like you have to do something... I don't think you're human.
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Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!
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Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.
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Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
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I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic models.
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Statistics on the dangers guns pose to the health of their owners and those who live with them suggest that I'd be safer selling my guns than reserving them for 'Tombstone II.'
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I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.
