Statistics Quotes

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!

People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.