Quotes about Statistics

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. Votes: 8

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination. Votes: 8

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. Votes: 7

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up. Votes: 7

Statistics is the grammar of science. Votes: 6

There are lies, damned lies and statistics. Votes: 6

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. Votes: 6

Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty. Votes: 6

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. Votes: 6

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." Votes: 6

Statistics are no substitute for judgment. Votes: 5

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. Votes: 4

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment. Votes: 4

Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics. Votes: 4

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Votes: 4

It is easy to lie with statistics; it is easier to lie without them. Votes: 4

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive. Votes: 4

Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models. Votes: 4

The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard. Votes: 4

To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose. Votes: 4

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination. Votes: 4

A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him. Votes: 4

Medical statistics are a little bit like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. Votes: 4

To tell you the truth, I've never weighed myself. When somebody asks me my statistics or whatever I honestly don't know. Votes: 4

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business. Votes: 4

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. Votes: 4

Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." Votes: 4

Statistics are for losers. Votes: 3

Statistics are there to be broken. Votes: 3

Statistics are the heart of democracy. Votes: 3

Statistics do not speak for themselves. Votes: 3

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance. Votes: 3

Statistics are designed to keep you safe. Votes: 3

[Statistics] Fiction in its most uninteresting form. Votes: 3

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences. Votes: 3

Statistics in the hands of activists have power. Votes: 3

Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it. Votes: 3

Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches. Votes: 3

Statistics are just people with the tears wiped off. Votes: 3

Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away. Votes: 3

Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures. Votes: 3

Statistics are like bikinis-they show a lot but not everything. Votes: 3

Statistics show that teen pregnancy drops off significantly after age 2 Votes: 3

Statistics are like miniskirts, they reveal more than what they hide. Votes: 3

Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God. Votes: 3

Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state. Votes: 3

Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. Votes: 3

[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics. Votes: 3

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie. Votes: 3

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.... Votes: 3

Statistics don't lie. It's the people who make up the statistics that lie. Votes: 3

One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics. Votes: 3

Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things. Votes: 3

Statistics indicate that the average American is a guy named Brian who lives in Ohio. Votes: 3

Statistics show 50% of the people use the internet. The rest have sex with real people. Votes: 3

Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive. Votes: 3

Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again. Votes: 3

Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases. Votes: 3

'Statistics' show that 66% of clients are cured with psychotherapy; what statistics don't show is that 72% are cured without it. Votes: 3

Statistics always remind me of fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet. Votes: 3

Statistics lie. They are designed to sway opinions. Take the time to keep yourself informed on things that matter. Votes: 3

Statistics may be defined as the discipline concerned with the treatment of numerical data derived from groups of individuals. Votes: 3

Statistics and numbers are no good unless you have good people to analyse and then interpret their meaning and importance. Votes: 3

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, before NAFTA went into effect, there were 285,000 auto workers in Michigan. Today, that number is only 160,000. Votes: 3

Statistics were magic like this: they could tell you with near-certainty that a thing would occur, without a hint of when or where. Votes: 3

Every month, we get the reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that say even more people have given up looking for work. Votes: 3

Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of natural phenomena. Votes: 3

Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations. Votes: 3

Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death. Votes: 3

...it is worth looking closer and remembering something Marcos Alvito told me: Statistics are like a bikini. They show so much, but they hide the most important parts. Votes: 3

I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios. Votes: 3

[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man. Votes: 3

The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate. Votes: 3

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo. Votes: 3

Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is to have a Senate committee appointed to look into it. Votes: 3

Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not! Votes: 3

I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences. Votes: 3

Everyone can relate to depression. It touches so many. Suicide is the leading cause of death among teenagers. Statistics show that women suffer from depression more than men, but that is probably because men don't report it as much. Votes: 3

Between 1950 and 1951, I worked as a temporary employee in the Cologne Bureau of Statistics. From summer 1951 on, I have lived as a freelance writer with a fixed postal address in Cologne but with a continually shifting place of work. Votes: 3

Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future. Votes: 3

Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are; a wise head is requisite for carrying it on. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so Votes: 3

Statistics are somewhat like old medical journals, or like revolvers in newly opened mining districts. Most men rarely use them, and find it troublesome to preserve them so as to have them easy of access; but when they do want them, they want them badly. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Statistics prove that teenage Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day,akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s, ...It's pernicious, it's evil, it's certainly one that feeds on those who are the weakest members of society and...that's the young and the poor. Votes: 3

The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and certain aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is thus a religious service. Votes: 3

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. Votes: 2

I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics. Votes: 2

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment. Votes: 2

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics. Votes: 2

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. Votes: 2

We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too. Votes: 2

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics. Votes: 2

All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation. Votes: 2

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work. Votes: 2

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place. Votes: 2

Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay. Votes: 2

Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics. Votes: 2

Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense. Votes: 2

I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving. Votes: 2

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious. Votes: 2

I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage. Votes: 2

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end. Votes: 2

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? Votes: 2

The greatest moments are those when you see the result pop up in a graph or in your statistics analysis - that moment you realise you know something no one else does and you get the pleasure of thinking about how to tell them. Votes: 2

To clarify, *add* data. Votes: 1

All statistics have outliers. Votes: 1

Above all else show the data. Votes: 1

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable. Votes: 1

Abstain from reading comedy or other government economic statistics. Votes: 1

Black Swans and tail events run the socioeconomic world Votes: 1

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth. Votes: 1

Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician. Votes: 1

If the statistics are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers. Votes: 1

If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment. Votes: 1

Every lateness give us a staggering statistics in negative economic effect Votes: 1

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. Votes: 1

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics. Votes: 1

The only meaningful statistic in warfare is when the other side quits. Votes: 1

...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable. Votes: 1

A small sample, we repeat, is rarely the big scientific problem. Interpretation is. Votes: 1

Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer] Votes: 1

I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged. Votes: 1

All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile. Votes: 1

Outside of the killings, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. Votes: 1

A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey. Votes: 1

I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly! Votes: 1

If proof were needed that statistics alone are not enough in establishing value, then VT Trumper is that proof. Votes: 1

Of course, if 40% of women need oxytocin to progress normally, then something is wrong with the definition of normal. Votes: 1

Sloane slipped an arm around my waist. "There are fourteen varieties of hugs," she said. "This is one of them. Votes: 1

Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious. Votes: 1

How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information. Votes: 1

In a world with amazing amounts of statistics and demographics available, If you don't utilize foresight, statistics, demographics, projections and predictions the competition will. Votes: 1

Many a statistic is false on its face. It gets by only because the magic of numbers brings about a suspension of common sense. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

We encounter regression to the mean almost every day of our lives. We should try to anticipate it, recognize it, and not be fooled by it. Votes: 1

Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one. Votes: 1

The non-scientist in the street probably has a clearer notion of physics, chemistry and biology than of statistics, regarding statisticians as numerical philatelists, mere collector of numbers. Votes: 1

Conventional wisdom nor scientific, mathematical prove of randomness in life could do nothing to deter human's curiosity for the unknown, however small the chance of a positive outcome maybe. Votes: 1

Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day. Votes: 1

Who needs theory when you have so much information? But this is categorically the wrong attitude to take toward forecasting, especially in a field like economics where the data is so noisy. Votes: 1

The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved. Votes: 1

I have stressed this distinction because it is an important one. It defines the fundamental difference between probability and statistics: the former concerns predictions based on fixed probabilities; the latter concerns the inference of those probabilities based on observed data. Votes: 1

We may at once admit that any inference from the particular to the general must be attended with some degree of uncertainty, but this is not the same as to admit that such inference cannot be absolutely rigorous, for the nature and degree of the uncertainty may itself be capable of rigorous expression. Votes: 1

Nature has established patterns originating in the return of events, but only for the most part. New illnesses flood the human race, so that no matter how many experiments you have done on corpses, you have not thereby immposd a limit on the nature of events so that in the future they could not vary. Votes: 1

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. But you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases. Votes: 1

I bathe in statistics. Votes: 0

God is just a statistics. Votes: 0

Facts speak louder than statistics. Votes: 0

Luck is statistics taken personally. Votes: 0

Democracy is an abuse of statistics. Votes: 0

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. Votes: 0

Aggregate statistics can sometimes mask important information. Votes: 0

Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics. Votes: 0

Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics. Votes: 0

We are just statistics, born to consume resources. Votes: 0

The church has paid a terrible price for statistics! Votes: 0

Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base. Votes: 0

Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.... Votes: 0

I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself Votes: 0

While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past. Votes: 0

In statistics, what disappears behind rows of numbers is death. Votes: 0

If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers. Votes: 0

Ninety-five percent of all statistics, including this one, are bogus. Votes: 0

Don't you read the statistics? Guns are unisex these days. Votes: 0

I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus. Votes: 0

Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself. Votes: 0

over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot. Votes: 0

Bayesian statistics is difficult in the sense that thinking is difficult. Votes: 0

43.7 per cent of all statistics are made up on the spot. Votes: 0

I don't think players care too much about stats and statistics... Votes: 0

No matter what the statistics say there is always a way. Votes: 0

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities. Votes: 0

If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth Votes: 0

The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself. Votes: 0

Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about. Votes: 0

You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics. Votes: 0

Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster. Votes: 0

There is something in statistics that makes it very similar to astrology. Votes: 0

According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless. Votes: 0

The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link. Votes: 0

People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas. Votes: 0

The Democrats' response throughout the healthcare debate? Give the people more statistics. Votes: 0

"I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics". Votes: 0

I am not very good at statistics. I am also a poor thinker. Votes: 0

Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments. Votes: 0

The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details. Votes: 0

He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination. Votes: 0

I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics. Votes: 0

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used. Votes: 0

Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears. Votes: 0

When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics. Votes: 0

You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics. Votes: 0

If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified. Votes: 0

Stories are more than compelling facts. People remember stories more than they remember statistics. Votes: 0

The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation. Votes: 0

Its important not to focus so much on the statistics, but [on people's] perceptions. Votes: 0

Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics towards which we can be indifferent. Votes: 0

If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, wed be terrified. Votes: 0

Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000. Votes: 0

Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance Votes: 0

We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures. Votes: 0

When babies listen, what they're doing is taking statistics on the language that they hear. Votes: 0

I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual. Votes: 0

You believe in God or statistics or the way your narrative differs from other people. Votes: 0

Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics. Votes: 0

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination. Votes: 0

Refuse the council of despair! Don't live by the statistics, live according to the prophetic word! Votes: 0

It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. Votes: 0

The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so Votes: 0

Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything. Votes: 0

We must be both rational and intellectual, both analytic and imaginative, utilizing both statistics and insight. Votes: 0

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument. Votes: 0

In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is. Votes: 0

If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed. Votes: 0

Despite the dubious statistics "¦ democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting. Votes: 0

The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units. Votes: 0

Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience. Votes: 0

When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn't wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics. Votes: 0

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination. Votes: 0

Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself. Votes: 0

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics. Votes: 0

There are some women out there who are just going to look better with a mustache: that's statistics. Votes: 0

Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices. Votes: 0

After all the statistics and calculations are formulated, the one element that breathes life into marketing is good design. Votes: 0

I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can. Votes: 0

The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace. Votes: 0

The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around. Votes: 0

it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament. Votes: 0

Insight is not the same as scientific deduction, but even at that it may be more reliable than statistics. Votes: 0

Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics. Votes: 0

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them. Votes: 0

The statistics of mines that need clearance are staggering but the truth is it's a challenge that is absolutely doable. Votes: 0

The most crazed religious fanatic argues in more calm and reasoned tones than liberals responding to statistics on concealed-carry permits. Votes: 0

I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers. Votes: 0

I don't believe in statistics. There are too many factors that can't be measured. You can't measure a ballplayer's heart. Votes: 0

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that. Votes: 0

Americans know very little about social statistics, but I am not sure that it's important that Americans know about social statistics. Votes: 0

Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning. Votes: 0

! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large. Votes: 0

This is a dishonest administration, because it is becoming clear that the unemployment statistics of the [Barack] Obama administration are not believable. Votes: 0

I know my statistics have not been the same as in other years but I'm fighting to get back to those statistics, Votes: 0

According to Google statistics, people search the word money four times as often as the word goal. This creates a word: frustration. Votes: 0

There are over 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country, and statistics have shown that the recidivism rate for those criminals is high. Votes: 0

I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head. Votes: 0

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good. Votes: 0

There are some scary statistics out there: one in five kids aged 10-17 have received a sexual solicitation or approach via the Internet." Votes: 0

Stories told around the water-cooler as well as statistics confirm that a man's competence is more likely to be presupposed, a woman's questioned. Votes: 0

David has scored 62 goals in 148 games for Ipswich and those statistics tell me that he plays games and scores goals. (on David Johnson) Votes: 0

Society and medicine treat us all as members of populations, whereas as individuals we are all unique, and population statistics do not apply. Votes: 0

There are some scary statistics out there: one in five kids aged 10-17 have received a sexual solicitation or approach via the Internet. Votes: 0

According to statistics, one person out of five is disturbed. If there are four people around you who seem normal, that's not good. Votes: 0

I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything. Votes: 0

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics. Votes: 0

People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering. Votes: 0

I tend not to work with a specific person in mind. Art is a matter of statistics. It's not about individuals. It's about people. Votes: 0

You try to be as original as you can be without thinking about statistics. You just go from the soul and from the heart. Votes: 0

Statements about climate trends must be based on, er, trends. Not individual events or occurrences. Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are not statistics. Votes: 0

I really don't care much about baseball, or looking at ball games, major or minor. All my interest in baseball is in its statistics. Votes: 0

I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for illumination. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It's the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among our adult population. Votes: 0

Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it's increasingly girls, not boys, who don't know how to read. Votes: 0

With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning. Votes: 0

I'm no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I'm part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well. Votes: 0

According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians. Votes: 0

Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable circumstances and extremes. Votes: 0

I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that. Votes: 0

Wouldn't it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol. Votes: 0

We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication. Votes: 0

Math is a language that you use to describe statistics, but really it's about collecting information and putting it in an order that makes sense. Votes: 0

Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment. Votes: 0

As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics. Votes: 0

I live by statistics, so if look at U.S. Census statistics regarding families making over $100,000 dollars a year, 93% of them have broadband internet at home. Votes: 0

Statistically, it would be insanity to go into the theatre for money. According to the statistics, you should just stay home. The odds are just incredible. Votes: 0

Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about "character issues." Votes: 0

Don't let the fear of statistics keep you from launching a continual improvement program. The statistics hurdle is easily overcome, going out of business is not. Votes: 0

Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It stands, essentially, for the application of increased energy to the efforts already undertaken by my ministry since 1934 with the results shown in the above statistics. Votes: 0

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation. Votes: 0

Baseball's rich in wonderful statistics, but it's hard to find one more beautiful than Stan Musial's hitting record. He didn't care where he was, he just hit. Votes: 0

Data-driven statistics has the danger of isolating statistics from the rest of the scientific and mathematical communities by not allowing valuable cross-pollination of ideas from other fields. Votes: 0

Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records. Votes: 0

With those kinds of statistics, there are real concerns that cannot be explained away other than race. How long do we turn a blind eye to it?. Votes: 0

I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well. Votes: 0

Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics. Votes: 0

According to statistics, it's a lot easier to get hit by lightning than to win a Lotto jackpot. The good side: you don't hear from your relatives. Votes: 0

If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it's one of my favorite places to renovate. Votes: 0

Forget the statistics...we have to do more. You cannot look these children in the eye and see how desperate is their situation without wanting to help. Votes: 0

We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them. Votes: 0

Even more important than statistics is then having the staff that can take the data and ensure it's presented in a way that improves individuals and teams. Votes: 0

And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid my bill. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is a possibility that your ability as a player may well be analysed by future generations on your one day statistics. That's the day I dread most. Votes: 0

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged. Votes: 0

Despite great advances in women's rights, statistics show that when it comes to the balance of power between the sexes, equality is far from being a global reality. Votes: 0

Have you noticed that all the news, statistics, strategies about unemployment are provided by those who are employed? As soon as you are unemployed you cease to exist ... Votes: 0

Ultimately, your economy has to be measured in the real eyes of real people, not simply in statistics that appear in newspapers about the unemployment rate and so forth. Votes: 0

All those statistics that you are gathering about your own experiences and about others are only about how somebody has flowed Energy. It isn't about any hard fast reality. Votes: 0

There are statistics out that say 20 year olds, 18 years olds think about sex 90 percent of the time. They only don't think about sex when they're eating, and that's rare. Votes: 0

Baseball is slovenly and excessive in midsummer, with its onrolling daily cascade of line scores and box scores, shifting statistics, highlights and lowlights, dingers and shutouts, streaks and slumps. Votes: 0

The export market is based, on high-paying jobs. I`ve seen statistics that show that people make over 88 a year generally benefit from this because these are export jobs. Votes: 0

It is clear looking at statistics of inventions, discoveries and fortune 500 companies, that it is not the believers that are managing the affairs of the earth. What a tragedy!!! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I thing for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. You see the statistics, and the dropoff on the second and third [films] , are dire. Votes: 0

You can never compare a stadium full of people to statistics online ... There's something about seeing people's faces, and it's amazing [seeing how] things online can also be translated offline. Votes: 0

The analysis of statistics is a big part of the modern game, and it's important as a modern manager to embrace areas that can help your team and players improve. Votes: 0

Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred. Votes: 0

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds. Votes: 0

There is something inhuman and vaguely pornographic about statistics... Pornography, on the other hand, with its loosely bound sequences of storyless sexual couplings often has the feel of a statistical survey. Votes: 0

I didn't have statistics in my mind when I was racing. It was always a consequence - a nice consequence. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't the reason I was racing. Votes: 0

There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic. Votes: 0

Quite often, most of us are defined first by our vital statistics - our sex, our height, our weight, the colour of our eyes and then we're defined by our job. Votes: 0

Big companies are often in the process of laying off workers. Small startup companies are the ones that are hiring. The statistics prove that's where job growth is going to occur. Votes: 0

It's tough to make it as an actor, tougher still to make it as an actress - the Screen Actors Guild is eager to provide the statistics to verify the latter. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You ask a person what their personal favorite song on the album is, and it's literally the one with the least amount of listens if you looked at the statistics of it. Votes: 0

There is a tendency in all of us to ask for better statistical performance. There is a tendency to impose quotas behind which usually lies imposition of pressure to achieve improved statistics. Votes: 0

The statistics requested respecting the number of crimes that have been solved by tracing the firearm back to the registered owner are not kept at this time and are therefore not available. Votes: 0

When you boil down the real facts and statistics of what carbon dioxide is doing to this planet... to not feel like you have to do something... I don't think you're human. Votes: 0

I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic models. Votes: 0

We've all heard these statistics that teachers at times go into their pockets in the tune of several hundred dollars a year to pay for school supplies and materials. It's not normal. Votes: 0

For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land. Votes: 0

In listening to stories we tend to suspend disbelief in order to be entertained, whereas in evaluating statistics we generally have an opposite inclination to suspend belief in order not to be beguiled. Votes: 0

I have made 70 or so films. In all my films not a single actor, a single extra, was hurt. Not one. So statistics are on my side when I say I'm clinically sane. Votes: 0

Most memoirs about alcoholism, promiscuity, and addiction are deep, sobering tales full of scars that will never heal and include alarming statistics and reflection about recovery.This is not one of those memoirs. Votes: 0

In the welter of statistics about selected ethnic origins (singular or multiple) in the last census, one finding was often overlooked. Of the 25,309,330 people living in Canada in 1986, only 69,065 declared themselves as Canadians. Votes: 0

The training one receives when one becomes a technician, like a data scientist - we get trained in mathematics or computer science or statistics - is entirely separated from a discussion of ethics. Votes: 0

I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning. Votes: 0

The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way. Votes: 0

I think that could be perhaps a little misleading and even our statistics can mislead people at the times though they are not misleading in themselves. It is just that people get mislead Votes: 0

To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all. Votes: 0

Is it in the UK's interests to leave the EU? It depends on your values. The answer can't be read off of GDP statistics under various scenarios or some measures of global influence. Votes: 0

No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics. Votes: 0

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious Votes: 0

Several national tests have revealed the following startling statistics about why salespeople fail...15% Improper training both product and sales skills. 20% Poor verbal and written communication skills. 15% Poor or problematic boss or management. 50% Attitude. Votes: 0

And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex than the way feminists had portrayed it, as men oppressing women. Votes: 0

In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show - the production and sale of books in their old-fashioned codex form. Votes: 0

If you unpack the statistics on who is supporting , Donald Trump, it means that there is a lot of people who hold very bigoted racist ideas and there is a lot of them. Votes: 0

The statistics reveal a failure of nerve on the part of many Christians. They seem to be simply unable to muster the strength necessary to develop a tenacious commitment to the truthfulness of Scripture. Votes: 0

The importance of infinite processes for the practical exigencies of technical life can hardly be overemphasized. Practically all applications of arithmetic to geometry, mechanics, physics and even statistics involve these processes directly and indirectly. Votes: 0

A lot of data, whether it's imagery or other kinds of things, work really well when it's geographically laid out. I'm talking about imagery, statistics, incidents and other things that happen around the globe. Votes: 0

It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds. . . that statistics come under the head of lying, and that no lie is so false or inconclusive as that which is based on statistics. Votes: 0

The statistics show that when you've done something for so long, it'll either be, yeah, you're slowing down, or someone's doing it better. But physically, I feel great. More than that, it's mental and spiritual. Votes: 0

Years ago a statistician might have claimed that statistics deals with the processing of data. . . to-days statistician will be more likely to say that statistics is concerned with decision making in the face of uncertainty. Votes: 0

In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology of today's illnesses and to recommend palliative treatments for what he has discovered. Votes: 0