Statistics Quotes
-
The truth is that the 143 million orphaned children and the 11 million who starve to death or die from preventable diseases and the 8.5 million who work as child slaves, prostitutes, or under other horrific conditions and the 2.3 million who live with HIV add up to 164.8 million needy children. And though at first glance that looks like a big number, 2.1 billion people on this earth proclaim to be Christians. The truth is that if only 8 percent of the Christians would care for one more child, there would not be any statistics left.
-
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.
-
The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.
-
Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.
-
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.
-
People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.
-
Statistics are for losers.
-
The statistical method gives only mediocre results.
-
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.
-
Statistics are the heart of democracy.
-
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
-
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
-
Statistics and numbers are no good unless you have good people to analyse and then interpret their meaning and importance.
-
Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.
-
The Democrats' response throughout the healthcare debate? Give the people more statistics.
-
Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.
-
Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that.
-
Human beings are prone to believe the things they wish were true.
-
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.
-
The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link.
-
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?
-
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.
-
When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.
-
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.
