Statistics Are Made Up Quotes

#1. Did you know that ninety-eight percent of statistics are made up on the spot?

Kim Harrington

#2. Over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

David Mitchell

#3. Statistical fact: cops will never pull over a man in a sweet van
if he's carrying forty pounds of sinsemilla buds. Another fact:
ninety percent of all statistics are made up.

Daniel Younger

#4. Yes, she wanted to make us undone that night, when we were young, innocent, trusting, having known only the sweetest part of living. She wanted to wither our souls and shrivel us small and dry, perhaps never to feel pride again.
But she didn't know us.

V.C. Andrews

#5. The town slowly wakes up around him with its foreign-made cars and its statistics and credit card debt and all its other crap.

Fredrik Backman

#6. Shooting films in Britain is always difficult, because we've never got enough money to make them.

James McAvoy

#7. Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities.

Leonard Woodcock

#8. Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early.

Chris Murray

#9. When people use statistics, in 72% of cases, they've made them up on the spur of the moment. Katrine Bratt

Jo Nesbo

#10. Jamaica never gets worse or better, it just finds new ways to stay the same.

Marlon James

#11. Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

Mark Twain

#12. A problem of statistical inference or, more simply, a statistics problem is a problem in which data that have been generated in accordance with some unknown probability distribution must be analyzed and some type of inference about the unknown distribution must be made.

Morris H. DeGroot

#13. I think that some of the greatest muckrakers and some of the greatest investigative journalists of all time had strong feelings about civil rights. There is a role for the journalist-advocate. And as long as you play your cards on the table, I think that's a role that we should allow.

Pete Earley

#14. Reece shook his head. "No, just the opposite. We'll stay out."
"What?" Brandon frowned.
Dana stared at Reece with a look of horror.
"It needs to be you, Brandon. You need to go in alone.

James L. Rubart

#15. Why be an average person? All the great achievements of history have been made by strong individuals who refused to consult statistics or to listen to those who could prove convincingly that what they wanted to do, and in fact ultimately did do, was completely impossible.

Eric Butterworth

#16. Use statistics as input not output. Use them to make up your mind on an issue.Don't make up your mind and then go looking for the number to support yourself.

Chip Heath

#17. After a minute he said, It's like-I don't know how to describe it, but it's like I belong with Jade. She really sees me. I mean, not the outside stuff. She sees me inside, and she likes me. Nobody else has ever done that ... except you.

L.J.Smith