Statistics is the grammar of science. — Karl Pearson
Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty. — W. Allen Wallis
Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination. — Vin Scully
I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual. — Dean Smith
Statistics are no substitute for judgment. — Henry Clay
[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. — Francis Galton
Statistics are like bikinis-they show a lot but not everything. — Lou Piniella
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. — Evan Esar
Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write! — H. G. Wells
Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census. — Rob Lowe
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. — Mark Twain
Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values. — John Tukey
The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard. — John Tukey
Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument. — Marilyn vos Savant
Short Statistical Quotes
I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application. — Heinrich Hertz
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. — Richard P. Feynman
All models are wrong, but some are useful. — George E. P. Box
The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain. — Jacques Hadamard
If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment. — Ernest Rutherford
Read not only between the lines, but also what is not written. — Vijay Kedia
Marketing isn’t about shortcuts; it’s about the slow, steady, and consistent effort. — Rand Fishkin
Goal-line technology is a good thing. The ref gets the signal and can decide based on that. — Didier Deschamps
If you are doing things the same way as two years ago, you are almost certainly doing them wrong. — John Harvey-Jones
Statistical Image Quotes
Statistical Analysis Quotes
If you torture the data long enough, it will confess. — Ronald Coase
An invaluable little book.... What Makes a Terrorist uses standard tools of economics and statistical analysis to get at the truth about terrorism.... Krueger finds one familiar fact in all his numbers. Countries with fewer civil liberties tend to produce more terrorists. — Daniel Finkelstein
What's the harm of a little mystification? It sure beats boring statistical analyses. — Carl Sagan
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. — Brendan Rodgers
When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there. — Nate Silver
Statistical Data Quotes
The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. — John Tukey
Using statistical models to predict life expectancy isn't a definitive forecast. It's a statistical proxy based on risk factors and population data, providing insights but not individual certainties. — Gary Brecka
We search through historical data looking for anomalous patterns that we would not expect to occur at random. — Jim Simons
I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I'm not kidding. — Hal Varian
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. — Herman Chernoff
Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from the data and ideas of other scientists. The recent studies show that children also learn in these ways. — Alison Gopnik
I think that having good data, good statistics-and the United States generally has better macroeconomic statistics than most countries-and having good economists to interpret those data and present the policy alternatives, has a substantially beneficial effect on policymaking in the United States. — Ben Bernanke
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. — Jack Newfield
Intellectual Property is the oil of the 21st century. — Mark Getty
Statistical Models Quotes
How many murders are committed in Gauteng, or in the Western Cape, in a month? A week? A day? An hour? But of course we are not allowed to know for sure. In close and direct imitation of his apartheid models, Selebi ensures that no statistics about crime may be published regularly in the press. — Thabo Mbeki
All models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne in mind. — George E. P. Box
Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models. — George E. P. Box
A theory is a good theory if it satisfies two requirements: it must accurately describe a large class of observations on the basis of a model that contains only a few arbitrary elements, and it must make definite predictions about the results of future observations. — Stephen Hawking
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. — Lars Peter Hansen
Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? — Stephen Hawking
The aim ... is to provide a clear and rigorous basis for determining when a causal ordering can be said to hold between two variables or groups of variables in a model . . . . The concepts refer to a model-a system of equations-and not to the 'real' world the model purports to describe. — Herbert Simon
I'm not a role model. I'm an aberation. A statistical anomoly. Following in my footsteps is about the dumbest thing you could ever do. — Patrick Rothfuss
The purpose of models is not to fit the data but to sharpen the question. — Samuel Karlin
When evaluating a model, at least two broad standards are relevant. One is whether the model is consistent with the data. The other is whether the model is consistent with the 'real world.' — Kenneth A. Bollen
Statistical Life Quotes
To control the future requires the control of education and of the child. Hence, for Christians to tolerate statist education, or to allow their children to be trained thereby, means to renounce power in society, to renounce their children, and to deny Christ's Lordship over all of life. — R.J. Rushdoony
Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906 by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics. — David Goodstein
I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning. — Peter De Vries
We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures. — Bernard Nathanson
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. — Hilaire Belloc
I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand. — Louis Armstrong
Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy of human life and action and concerns everybody and everything. It is the pith of civilization and of man's human existence. — Ludwig von Mises
Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. — William Ernest Henley
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. — Carlos Castaneda
Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious. — Scott Dikkers
Statistical Method Quotes
Failure is simply an indicator that something in our method needs to be changed. — Leo Babauta
One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary. — Ayn Rand
Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. — Hilaire Belloc
I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested. — August Wilhelm von Hofmann
This is not a dictatorship, this is based upon scientific evidence to support a given project. If you want to put up a building, say half a mile high, the material has to be available. Using statistics is not a dictatorship. It's a method of getting the most from existing resources. — Jacque Fresco
Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of natural phenomena. — Maurice Kendall
The central point about the psychedelic experience is the content of the experience. And this has been occluded or obfuscated by the behavioral and statistical and scientific methods that have been brought to bear to study hallucinogenic experience. — Terence McKenna
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
It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon. — Robert Hooke
The Bureau of Justice reports that one in three black male babies born this century will go to jail or prison - that is an absolutely astonishing statistic. And it ought to be terrorizing to not just to people of color, but to all of us. — Bryan Stevenson
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. — Rita Mae Brown
I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance. — Frank Zappa
If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart. — George A. Romero
They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there. — Mike Schmidt
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. — Kim Campbell
GDP statistics evolved during the Industrial Age and do not seem to be keeping up with the digital age. Thanks to productivity, real GDP growth probably is higher and inflation lower than reported, suggesting that the quality of earnings has increased significantly. — Cathie Wood
I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency. — Anatoly Karpov
Simple probability and statistics should be taught in grades kindergarten through twelve and that analyzing games of chance such as coin matching, dice, and roulette is one way we can learn enough to think through such issues. — Edward O. Thorp
Statistic Quotes
Contrary to popular belief, we are not doomed. This is statistically the best time to be alive, ever. — Peter Diamandis
There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe. — Robert A. Heinlein
The desire to maximize the number of winning trades (or minimize the number of losing trades) works against the trader. The success rate of trades is the least important performance statistic and may even be inversely related to performance. — William Eckhardt
I’ve always been working hard on my speed for the last few years. Obviously I’m not slow, but as a striker, the more speed you have, the better you are. — Harry Kane
The only difference between a salesperson and a marketer is the first person is annoying, and the second one is amazing. — Russell Brunson
Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance. — Holger Czukay
There are 1000 mobile network operators competing for half the world, but there’s none competing for the other half. — Micky Watkins
It’s similar to what sailors feel when they are out at sea – if they meet another ship, they probably feel some kind of brotherhood; it doesn’t matter which flag is on the ship. — Sergei Krikalev
A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence. — Howard Whitley Eves
Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain fictive hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena. — Leonhard Euler
My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for grammar, for physics, for statistics, for all the "hard" subjects.... In short, I believe more than ever that programming should be a key part of the intellectual development of people growing up. — Seymour Papert
While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician. — Arthur Conan Doyle
You might think that as people get older, they spend money more freely out of the sheer desire to make the most of it before it’s truly too late. But the opposite tends to happen. In general, spending among American households declines as people age. For example, the Consumer Expenditure Survey, conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, found that in 2017, average annual spending for households headed by 55-to-64-year-olds was $65,000. Average spending fell to $55,000 for those between 65 and 74; and spending fell again to $42,000 for those 75 and older. This overall decline occurred despite a rise in healthcare expenses, because most other expenses, such as clothing and entertainment, were much lower. The decline in spending over time was even more acute for retirees with more than $1 million in assets, according to separate research conducted by J.P. Morgan Asset Management, which analyzed data from more than half a million of its customers. — Bill Perkins
There is a huge gap between international and domestic cricket. That gap needs to be lessened. Our domestic circuit needs to step up. — Smriti Mandhana
Someone twice as talented but half as hardworking as another person might reach the same level of skill but still produce dramatically less over time. — Angela Duckworth
Remember that the Lord Jesus came to take away sin in three ways; He came to remove the penalty of sin, the power of sin, and, at last, the presence of sin. — Charles Spurgeon
On-page SEO is no longer satisfied by raw keyword use. Matching keywords to searcher INTENT is critical. — Brian Dean
If I had to boil it down to the one thing that makes the most difference it would be having a systematic way of getting sales. — Ryan Deiss
If you keep trying to hit a four but you keep on getting only one run. Then chances are when you will hit a six you will get caught. — Vijay Kedia
Humans are actually far more likely to get taken out by an impact event or a supervolcano than we are to get killed in a crash of a commercial airliner. — John Young
I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly. — Eric Temple Bell
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