Statistics Quotes
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You try to be as original as you can be without thinking about statistics. You just go from the soul and from the heart.
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Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.
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Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
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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 are for losers.
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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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People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.
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Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.
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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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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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The Democrats' response throughout the healthcare debate? Give the people more statistics.
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Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.
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The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.
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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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The statistical method gives only mediocre results.
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The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link.
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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.
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Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.
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Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that.
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Human beings are prone to believe the things they wish were true.
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Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.
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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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I think that could be perhaps a little misleading and even our statistics can mislead people at the times though they are not misleading in themselves. It is just that people get mislead
