Statistics Quotes

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics.

I'm no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I'm part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well.

With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.

You're trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don't know these people, you don't know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts to nothing more than speculation.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not.

The statistics might have a Eurosceptic cast, but they are not exactly a fun read. Few of us want to wade through ONS graphs or European Commission tables.

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

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.

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.