Statistics Quotes
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Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
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Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.
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The statistical method gives only mediocre results.
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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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Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.
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Statistics are the heart of democracy.
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People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.
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Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that.
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Statistics are for losers.
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The Democrats' response throughout the healthcare debate? Give the people more statistics.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.
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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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When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.
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Human beings are prone to believe the things they wish were true.
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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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Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.
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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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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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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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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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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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Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.
