The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the folk-lore of Central China, or a statistical enquiry into the declining population of Prince Edward Island. But to write something out of one's own mind, worth reading for its own sake, is an arduous contrivance only to be achieved in fortunate moments, few and far in between. Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue.
. . . the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category.
I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective.
Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and editing of prose.
Fairness is not about statistical equality.
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.
The legendary statistical consultant W. Edwards Deming,. . . has called the system by which merit is appraised and rewarded 'the most powerful inhibitor to quality and productivity in the Western world'. . . it is simply unfair to the extent that employees are held responsible for what are, in reality, systemic factors that are beyond their control.
I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does.
Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.
What's the harm of a little mystification? It sure beats boring statistical analyses.
We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matter, we pursue statistical inquiries as a branch of rational mechanics.
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.
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
Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence.
Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.
We have strong statistical evidence that shows that transgender people are twice as likely as their fellow citizens to join the military, to have served in the military.
Notre Dame had a. . . sorta. . . statistical defense.
Without bragging, I've been blessed to have five of the greatest statistical years for a running back.
These disturbing phenomena [Extra Sensory Perception] seem to deny all our scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming.
