over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for illumination.
I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say.
Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
I wanted to be an archaeologist. But in school you have to take a tremendous amount of statistics for that, and I am not good at statistics. So I hit a real wall with archaeology. It's probably like wanting to be an architect - you think it's all fun and games, and then you have to get out a calculator and you're done.
No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.
I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well.
The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.
We have the best customer satisfaction record, based on Transportation Dept. statistics, of any airline in America, the fewest complaints filed per 100,000 passengers carried. So you're not just getting low fares, you're also getting wonderful customer service.
Statistics in the hands of activists have power.
Statistics indicate that the average American is a guy named Brian who lives in Ohio.
When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning.
You only find complete unanimity in a cemetary.
The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.
The training one receives when one becomes a technician, like a data scientist - we get trained in mathematics or computer science or statistics - is entirely separated from a discussion of ethics.
Statistics don't lie. It's the people who make up the statistics that lie.
The light of faith makes us see what we believe.
A little uncertainty is good for everyone.
Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.