Statistics Quotes
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If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
Ernest Rutherford
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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.
Eva Burrows
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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.
Ernie Banks
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If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.
Sandra Day O'Connor
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According to the statistics, a man eats a prune every twenty seconds. I don't know who this fellow is, but I know where to find him.
Morey Amsterdam
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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.
Evan Thomas
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Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: "A judicious man," says he, "looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him."
Thomas Carlyle
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The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.
Josiah Stamp
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A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".
Thomas Carlyle
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Statistics compiled by the German Federal Motor Transport Authority highlight how successfully we have reduced fuel consumption. A few years ago, the CO2 emissions for the BMW brand were at well over 200 grams per kilometer. In 2009, that number was at 159 grams. This puts us below our direct competitors.
Norbert Reithofer
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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.
Story Musgrave
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If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.
Lewis Carroll