Statistics Quotes
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Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.
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Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.
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People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.
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The statistical method gives only mediocre results.
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Statistics are for losers.
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The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.
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There is a liberal bias. It's demonstrable. You look at some statistics. About 85 percent of the reporters who cover the White House vote Democratic, they have for a long time. There is a, particularly at the networks, at the lower levels, among the editors and the so-called infrastructure, there is a liberal bias.
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Statistics are the heart of democracy.
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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.
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Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
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Statistics and numbers are no good unless you have good people to analyse and then interpret their meaning and importance.
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Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.
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The Democrats' response throughout the healthcare debate? Give the people more statistics.
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Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that.
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Of course, the entire effort is to put myself Outside the ordinary range Of what are called statistics. A hundred are killed In the outer suburbs. Well, well, I carry on.
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Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.
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The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link.
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Human beings are prone to believe the things they wish were true.
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Statistics show that a soldier's chances of survival in the front lines of combat are greater than the chances of an unborn child avoiding abortion. What should be the safest place to live in America - a mother's womb - is now the most dangerous place.
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I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for illumination.
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One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected?
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I think all writing is an attempt to complicate and subvert the dominant narrative. Writing personalizes statistics. It puts a face and a name on a number. I suppose in that sense it's always political.
