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I don't believe in statistics. There are too many factors that can't be measured. You can't measure a ballplayer's heart.
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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.
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Statistical inference is really just the marriage of two concepts that we've already discussed: data and probability (with a little help from the central limit theorem).
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.
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Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.
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Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
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In my quest to become unique, I've become a statistic.
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In life I've always considered myself statistically challenged. I married my high school sweetheart and then he joined the Army. Lucky for me, love has nothing to do with statistics.
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Whenever I read statistical reports, I try to imagine my unfortunate contemporary, the Average Person, who, according to these reports, has 0.66 children, 0.032 cars, and 0.046 TVs.
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All you nerds out there (me included) - don't always rely on stats for the perfect answer.
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Statistics are the heart of democracy.
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Statistics are like bikinis-they show a lot but not everything.
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Use statistics as input not output. Use them to make up your mind on an issue.Don't make up your mind and then go looking for the number to support yourself.
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If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
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If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.
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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.
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Statistics are for losers.
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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.
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Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.
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It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
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While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.
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If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment.
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Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
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Sanity was statistical.
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Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases.
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Statistics are no substitue for judgement.
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Luck is statistics taken personally.
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Statistics mean nothing to the individual. Not a damn thing.
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Over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
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No scientist is as model minded as is the statistician; in no other branch of science is the word model as often and consciously used as in statistics.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
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Except in expert hands, stats can get in the way of story; an array of data that might better be presented in a table instead clogs up sentences.
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I make such a good statistic, somebody should study me now; somebody's gotta be interested in how I feel, just cause I'm here, and I'm real.
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Statistical projections which speak to the senses without fatiguing the mind, possess the advantage of fixing the attention on a great number of important facts.
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One thing about cold weather: it brings out the statistician in everyone.
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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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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.
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Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.
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Did you know that ninety-eight percent of statistics are made up on the spot?
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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.
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By relying on the statistical information rather than a gut feeling, you allow the data to lead you to be in the right place at the right time. To remain as emotionally free from the hurly burley of the here and now is one of the only ways to succeed.
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Statistics are there to be broken.
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I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.
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A life saved is a statistic; a person hurt is an anecdote. Statistics are invisible; anecdotes are salient.
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One sample is poor statistics, my math prof used to say.
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Nobody evers seems to realize that a statistic is just a coincidence that has had a lot of experience.
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He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.
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In the real world of research, conventional tests of [statistical] significance seem almost worthless.
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Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.
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125.00% Mean 149.17% Standard Deviation 43.47%
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I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.
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If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative. And you may very well make up a wrong story because you only have one fact, which is a statistic.
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Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.
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He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts ... for support rather than illumination.
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Statistical fact: cops will never pull over a man in a sweet van
if he's carrying forty pounds of sinsemilla buds. Another fact:
ninety percent of all statistics are made up.
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A problem of statistical inference or, more simply, a statistics problem is a problem in which data that have been generated in accordance with some unknown probability distribution must be analyzed and some type of inference about the unknown distribution must be made.
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We are just statistics, born to consume resources.
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Everything you do is measured by stats and it is difficult to keep your identity as a person out of the game. It can swallow you whole if you let yourself be engulfed by your statistics.
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Regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one.
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Coincidence", he finally said. "Statisticans looking for connections can always find odd coincidences and statistical anomalies, if they try hard enough.
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If the statistics are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers.
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I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy
that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk.
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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.
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Your statistical track record for decision-making is somewhat concerning.
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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.
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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.
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What makes him successful is the way that he analyzes information. He is not just hunting for patterns. Instead, Bob combines his knowledge of statistics with his knowledge of basketball in order to identify meaningful relationships in the data.
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Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.
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The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing.
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Statistics do not speak for themselves.
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Statistics were magic like this: they could tell you with near-certainty that a thing would occur, without a hint of when or where.
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She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic.
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While it is easy to lie with statistics, it is even easier to lie without them.
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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.
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I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.
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It is easy to lie with statistics; it is easier to lie without them.
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If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth
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In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.
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As you consider the next question, please assume that Steve was selected at random from a representative sample:
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The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.
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If you don't know an answer, a fact, a statistic - make it up on the spot.
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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.
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I often calculate odds on horse races; the civil service computermen frequently program such requests. But the results are so at variance with expectations that I have concluded either that the data is too meager, or the horses or riders are not honest. Possibly all three.
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Before gathering any data, one must have concepts about the data being gathered. These are conceptual categories, meanings, and relationships that are all pre-empirical. They are purely theoretical. Imagine
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If you start thinking about stats it can get too complicated and you just have to go out there and play your game.
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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.
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You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
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God is just a statistics.
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The only meaningful statistic is number of games won.
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I don't think players care too much about stats and statistics ...
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Fortune favors the bold, though statistics favor the cautious.
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Marianne, how's your statistics?" "Math is my worst subject." "But you can program?" "Of course. I'm not illiterate.
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Ninety-five percent of all statistics, including this one, are bogus.
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Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.
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Facts speak louder than statistics.