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“Statisticians report that television is watched over six hours a day in the average American household. I don't know any fiction writers who live in average American households. I suspect Louise Erdrich might. Actually I have never seen an average American household. Except on TV.”
Source: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
“Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.”
“Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.”
“Statistics always remind me of fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet.”
“Statistics and numbers are no good unless you have good people to analyse and then interpret their meaning and importance.”
“Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.”
“Statistics are designed to keep you safe.”
“Statistics are for losers.”
“Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away.”
“Statistics are just people with the tears wiped off.”
“Statistics are like bikinis-they show a lot but not everything.”
“Statistics are like miniskirts, they reveal more than what they hide.”
“Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.”
“Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases.”
“Statistics are never a substitute for common sense.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Statistics are reliable, but only as idiot demons.”
Source: Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
“Statistics are somewhat like old medical journals, or like revolvers in newly opened mining districts. Most men rarely use them, and find it troublesome to preserve them so as to have them easy of access; but when they do want them, they want them badly.”
“Statistics are the heart of democracy.”
“Statistics are the lifeblood of baseball. In no other sport are so many available and studied so assiduously by participants and fans. Much of the game's appeal, as a conversation piece, lies in the opportunity the fan gets to back up opinions and arguments with convincing figures, and it is entirely possible that more American boys have mastered long division by dealing with batting averages than in any other way.”
“Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.”
“Statistics are there to be broken.”
“Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.”
“Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.”
Source: The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference
“Statistics compiled by the German Federal Motor Transport Authority highlight how successfully we have reduced fuel consumption. A few years ago, the CO2 emissions for the BMW brand were at well over 200 grams per kilometer. In 2009, that number was at 159 grams. This puts us below our direct competitors.”
“Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.”
“Statistics do not speak for themselves.”
“Statistics document startling increases in divorce, singles, patchwork families, single parents, and so on, which imply significant changes in our concept and experience of family in today's society. It is clear that everyday reality no longer corresponds to the ad industry's image is the "average family": mother, father, two children, a dog, happy smiling faces, and lots of time for each other. You can be sure, however, that these out-dated images are not sure to any ignorance on the post of the ad industry; the image creators are well aware of the chances that have taken place. In contrast to the social-demographic changes, there is still a strong undercurrent in it culture that carries longings that are connected to, and stimulated by, those images.”
Source: Self-Actualization
“Statistics don't determine whether you find love or get married. You do!”
“Statistics don't lie. It's the people who make up the statistics that lie.”
“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.”
Source: The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 1
“Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is to have a Senate committee appointed to look into it.”
Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding
“Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.”
“Statistics in the hands of activists have power.”
“Statistics indicate that the average American is a guy named Brian who lives in Ohio.”
Source: This Is a Book
“Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are; a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.”
“Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.”
“Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of natural phenomena.”
Source: The Advanced Theory of Statistics: Distribution theory
“Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.”
“Statistics is the grammar of science.”
“Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every art: the one science essential to all political and social administration, all education, all organization based on experience, for it only gives results of our experience.”
“Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch of mathematics. Now I agree that the physicist, the chemist, the engineer, and the statistician can never know too much mathematics, but their objectives should be better physics, better chemistry, better engineering, and in the case of statistics, better scientific investigation. Whether in any given study this implies more or less mathematics is incidental.”
“Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.”
“Statistics may be defined as the discipline concerned with the treatment of numerical data derived from groups of individuals.”
Source: Statistical Methods in Medical Research
“Statistics prove that teenage Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day, akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s. It's pernicious, it's evil, it's certainly one that feeds on those who are the weakest members of society - and that's the young and the poor.”
“Statistics say that a range of mental disorders affects more than one in four Americans in any given year. That means millions of Americans are totally batshit.
but having perused the various tests available that they use to determine whether you're manic depressive. OCD, schizo-affective, schizophrenic, or whatever, I'm surprised the number is that low. So I have gone through a bunch of the available tests, and I've taken questions from each of them, and assembled my own psychological evaluation screening which I thought I'd share with you.
So, here are some of the things that they ask to determine if you're mentally disordered
1. In the last week, have you been feeling irritable?
2. In the last week, have you gained a little weight?
3. In the last week, have you felt like not talking to people?
4. Do you no longer get as much pleasure doing certain things as you used to?
5. In the last week, have you felt fatigued?
6. Do you think about sex a lot?
If you don't say yes to any of these questions either you're lying, or you don't speak English, or you're illiterate, in which case, I have the distinct impression that I may have lost you a few chapters ago.”
Source: Wishful Drinking
“Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.”
“Statistics show 50% of the people use the internet. The rest have sex with real people.”
“Statistics show that a narcissistic mother has a 98% chance of raising a narcissistic son. As a result, he will lie, cheat, steal, & in some cases, kill.”
“Statistics show that a soldier's chances of survival in the front lines of combat are greater than the chances of an unborn child avoiding abortion. What should be the safest place to live in America - a mother's womb - is now the most dangerous place.”