Statistics Quotes
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People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.
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Statistics are for losers.
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Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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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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Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that.
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The Democrats' response throughout the healthcare debate? Give the people more statistics.
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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.
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Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.
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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.
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Human beings are prone to believe the things they wish were true.
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Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.
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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
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Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.
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Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.
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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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Insight is not the same as scientific deduction, but even at that it may be more reliable than statistics.
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You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal relationship between them, nor does the resulting quotient have any necessary relationship to anything in the real world.
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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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When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.
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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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Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.
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I don't believe in statistics. There are too many factors that can't be measured. You can't measure a ballplayer's heart.
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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.
