Statistics Quotes

• I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • Work
  • Done
  • Economics

• No study has brought out any solid evidence that the death penalty deters crime. In fact, Amnesty reports that 'the murder rate in states which use the death penalty is twice that of states which do not, according to FBI statistics.

  

  Antoinette Bosco
  • Death
  • Crime
  • Statistics

• Statistics in the hands of activists have power.

  

  Ela Bhatt
  • Hands
  • Statistics
  • Activists

• The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Numbers
  • Victim
  • Statistics

• If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it's one of my favorite places to renovate.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Time
  • Kitchen

• Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Science
  • Shows
  • Chosen

• The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'

  

  Vladimir Bukovsky
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Optimist

• Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Chance
  • Bloody
  • Unconquerable

• The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Action
  • Statistics
  • Predictions

• A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual; and before society as a whole, what can be the aim only of the group.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Good
  • Society
  • Groups

• After all the statistics and calculations are formulated, the one element that breathes life into marketing is good design.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Design
  • Marketing
  • Element

• If it wasn't for my sport and my father, I'd probably be a fallen statistic. I'd be dead; I'd be in jail. Luckily, I had a great dad in my life.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Life
  • Great
  • Father

• All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.

  

  Chris Hart
  • World
  • Smile
  • Measure

• So, instead, we are supplied with a constant stream of propaganda telling us about the righteous contempt that the people feel for the corrupt political class, which only serves to weaken the position of politicians still further, which in turn leads to a new round of gauntlet-running in the media. This process continues in a vicious circle, the inevitable culmination of which is the death of representative democracy, the complete impotence of politicians, and a hyper-real media dictatorship. This process is strengthened by feedback. Through the use of opinion polls, whose questions are obviously phrased by the media to serve their own purposes, the population is told what it thinks, and what it is “natural” to think. Then the media go on to show how adaptable politicians are adapting to this norm, or are allowing themselves to be adapted, and so the process goes on and on, ad infinitum. The investigations of the mass-media are, on their most profound level, investigations into the mass-media themselves. Statistics which purport to represent public opinion are actually the tools used by the media to manufacture opinion.

  

  Alexander Bard Army of Lovers
  • Media
  • Propaganda
  • Statistics

• I think that having good data, good statistics-and the United States generally has better macroeconomic statistics than most countries-and having good economists to interpret those data and present the policy alternatives, has a substantially beneficial effect on policymaking in the United States.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Good
  • Present
  • United States

• The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. that It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era.

  

  Story Musgrave
  • Life
  • Civilization
  • Statistics

• But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and direction and to combine according to the parallelogram law; and many of them are not at all reminiscent of journeys.

  

  Banesh Hoffmann
  • Law
  • Journey
  • Statistics

• One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Wife
  • Found
  • Matrimony

• Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.

  

  Alphonse Allais
  • Military
  • Statistics
  • Wartime

• The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.

  

  Erwin Schrodinger
  • Details
  • Statistics
  • Ignoring

• According to new statistics, Pope Francis is the most talked about person on the Internet. And not only that, he has the most viewed profile on Christian Mingle.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Christian
  • Statistics
  • Pope Francis

• They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

  

  Mike Schmidt
  • Giving
  • Houston
  • Montreal

• The truth is that the 143 million orphaned children and the 11 million who starve to death or die from preventable diseases and the 8.5 million who work as child slaves, prostitutes, or under other horrific conditions and the 2.3 million who live with HIV add up to 164.8 million needy children. And though at first glance that looks like a big number, 2.1 billion people on this earth proclaim to be Christians. The truth is that if only 8 percent of the Christians would care for one more child, there would not be any statistics left.

  

  Katie Davis
  • Children
  • Truth
  • Child

• Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.

  

  Hal Clement
  • Believe
  • Might
  • Statistics

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