Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Statistics. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Statistics Quotes And Sayings by 89 Authors including Winston Churchill,Jim Bouton,Scotty Bowman,Hilaire Belloc,Lillian Hellman for you to enjoy and share.

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The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.
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Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.
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Statistics are for losers.
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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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Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
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Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.
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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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If the statistics are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers.
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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.
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You cannot feed the hungry on 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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If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.
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Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.
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A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him.
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Statistics mean nothing to the individual. Not a damn thing.
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Statistics are no substitue for judgement.
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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 began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.
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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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Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.
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I craved knowledge. I craved facts. I searched for them like lifebuoys in the sea. But statistics are tricky things.
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Statistics do not speak for themselves.
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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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Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.
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Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
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The statistician cannot excuse himself from the duty of getting his head clear on the principles of scientific inference, but equally no other thinking man can avoid a like obligation.
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One sample is poor statistics, my math prof used to say.
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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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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.
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If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth
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Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.
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Did you know that ninety-eight percent of statistics are made up on the spot?
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Over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
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It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
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Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.
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He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts ... for support rather than illumination.
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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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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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That's why we have journalists, for stats.
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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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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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Statistics in the hands of activists have power.
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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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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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It is easy to lie with statistics; it is easier to lie without them.
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You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
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If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment.
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There is something in statistics that makes it very similar to astrology.
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I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics.
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This spiritualist, this statistician, what are you anyway?
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I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
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He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.
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If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.
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While it is easy to lie with statistics, it is even easier to lie without them.
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Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.
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Statistics don't lie. It's the people who make up the statistics that lie.
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99 percent of all statistics only tell 49 percent of the story.
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Facts speak louder than statistics.
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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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Its important not to focus so much on the statistics, but [on people's] perceptions.
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We are just statistics, born to consume resources.
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Data, data everywhere, but not a thought to think.
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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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Aggregate statistics can sometimes mask important information.
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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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It's easy to lie with statistics, but it's hard to tell the truth without them.
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I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.
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In my quest to become unique, I've become a statistic.
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According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.
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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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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.
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Let the numbers speak.
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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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Our ability to analyze data has grown far more sophisticated than our thinking about what we ought to do with the results. You
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All statistics have outliers.
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She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic.
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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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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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Certainty, not data, is knowledge.
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125.00% Mean 149.17% Standard Deviation 43.47%
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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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Marianne, how's your statistics?" "Math is my worst subject." "But you can program?" "Of course. I'm not illiterate.
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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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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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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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Don't be a novelist
be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination.
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Be careful of averages and how they're applied. One way that they can fool you is if the average combines samples from disparate populations. This can lead to absurd observations such as:
"On average, humans have one testicle.
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Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.
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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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I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat her handmaid with proper respect, and not to prostitute her services for controversial or personal purposes.
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The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link.
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Ninety-five percent of all statistics, including this one, are bogus.
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Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.
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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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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.
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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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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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You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics.
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I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.