Quotes about Statistics

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Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious. — Scott Dikkers, You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day
A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey. — Banksy
I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly! — Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
All statistics have outliers. — Nenia Campbell, Terrorscape
There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics. — Benjamin Disraeli
Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God. — Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with inst — Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet — E.M. Forster
Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns — Donald Rumsfeld
How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information. — Criss Jami, Healology
The obvious cure for the tragic shortcomings of human intuition in a high-tech world is education. And this offers prior — Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Also, even if technocrats provide reasonable estimates of a risk, which itself is an iffy enterprise, they cannot dictat — Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
In my opinion, defining intelligence is much like defining beauty, and I don’t mean that it’s in the eye of the beholder — Marilyn Vos Savant
The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all oth — Criss Jami, Killosophy
If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment. — Ernest Rutherford
Scientists and inventors of the USA (especially in the so-called "blue state" that voted overwhelmingly against Trump) h — Piero Scaruffi
What nature hath joined together, multiple regression analysis cannot put asunder. — Richard E. Nisbett, Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking
Some of the greatest masterpieces of art are created against the odds of reality.from the book: stuff i think about — Sondra Faye
Conventional wisdom nor scientific, mathematical prove of randomness in life could do nothing to deter human's curiosity — Vann Chow, The White Man and the Pachinko Girl