Statistics Quotes
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Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.
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People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.
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Statistics are the heart of democracy.
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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: 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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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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Human beings are prone to believe the things they wish were true.
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Staring us in the face is the desperate plight of the poor. We don't need statistics to tell us that. They are flesh and blood people like ourselves, often out of work, forced out of rented premises, without money and without food.
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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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Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.
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When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.
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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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Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.
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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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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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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 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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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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Insight is not the same as scientific deduction, but even at that it may be more reliable than statistics.
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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.
