X T E Statistics Quotes

#1. Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Edward Dahlberg

#2. Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

Aristotle.

#3. The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.

Erwin Schrodinger

#4. Checquy statistics indicate that 15 percent of all men in hats are concealing horns.

Daniel O'Malley

#5. There is certainly the intention of efforts like the Common Core to raise education standards and make sure that every student masters advanced math concepts - algebra, geometry, statistics and probability.

Anya Kamenetz

#6. One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.

Thomas Sowell

#7. Without individuals we see only numbers: a thousand dead, a hundred thousand dead, "casualties may rise to a million." With individual stories, the statistics become people - but even that is a lie, for the people continue to suffer in numbers that themselves are numbing and meaningless.

Neil Gaiman

#8. The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.

Richard Bach

#9. Statistics are there to be broken.

Chris Kamara

#10. That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#11. In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

Stephen Leacock

#12. Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases.

Theodor Billroth

#13. It doesn't matter if everyone thinks something is not worthy enough, it doesn't matter what the statistics say, it doesn't matter when the whole world is against something you do, as long as it keeps you happy.

Zainab T. Khan

#14. The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

Patricia Ireland

#15. Damn description, it is always disgusting.

Lord Byron

#16. So it is with statistics; no amount of fancy analysis can make up for fundamentally flawed data. Hence the expression garbage in, garbage out.

Charles Wheelan

#17. At this stage, don't take any of your statistics too literally and don't let any single number dominate your strategic thinking.

Anonymous

#18. That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said to be the statistics upon the subject.

Andrew Carnegie

#19. My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

Dave Hickey

#20. In 2012, an estimated 14,827 persons were murdered in the United States.
-- Federal Bureau of Investigation

Gennaro F. Vito

#21. A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough.

William James

#22. Under certain conditions, index numbers may do very useful service as an aid to investigation into the history and statistics of prices; for the extension of the theory of the nature and value of money they are unfortunately not very important.

Ludwig Von Mises

#23. Those who refused to respond to new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish.

Philip K. Dick

#24. Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in as in their rectified version

George Orwell

#25. To me, the main weakness of EDA is its failure to enquire why the data were collected in the first place and its consequent tendency to apply ingenious methods largely because they are so attractively ingenious.

Michael Healy

#26. While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#27. It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.

Richard P. Feynman

#28. One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.

Rita Mae Brown

#29. Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.

Ebbe Skovdahl

#30. 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