Statistics Quotes
These are some of the best 'Statistics' quotations and sayings.
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79.84% of all statistics are made up on the spot. The other 42% are made up later on.
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An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
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And if you're happy knowing the mean, and not knowing the distribution, well then I will gladly bet you $20 that the next person through that door will have an above average number of legs.
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Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
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Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
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Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
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Half of the people in the world are below average.
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I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
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I could prove God statistically.
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It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners.
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Oh, don't tell me of facts - I never believe in facts; you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.
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On the average, everybody has one testicle.
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Statisticians probably do it.
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Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
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Statistics are like loose women, once you get them you can do anything you want with them.
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Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
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Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.
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