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Statistics Quotes

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts – for support rather than for illumination.

– Andrew Lang

Behavioral scientists distinguish between fast thinking and slow thinking. Fast thinking is represented in the mind’s System 1: it is automatic, intuitive, and often emotional. Slow thinking, reflected in System 2, is deliberative and reflective; it likes statistics. It’s hard to think of a purer System 1 candidate than Trump.

– Cass Sunstein

For the most part, the first thing people I meet that aren’t Mormon say is, ‘I grew up with a Mormon family. They’re the nicest people I know.’ So when I see these statistics that it’s the most hated religion, I don’t know where they’re getting that from.

– Brandon Flowers

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.

– Bob Filner

The buffalo isn’t as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.

– Art Buchwald

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

– Andrew Lang

We all know that Americans love their statistics – in sport, obviously. And in finance too.

– Evan Davis

On completing my degree, I started a Ph.D. in statistics, although I knew very little about the topic. My supervisor was Professor Harry Pitt, who was an excellent pure mathematician and probabilist.

– Clive Granger

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

– Fletcher Knebel

Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it’s an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense.

– Christopher McDougall

I didn’t have statistics in my mind when I was racing. It was always a consequence – a nice consequence. I enjoyed it, but it wasn’t the reason I was racing.

– Michael Schumacher

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

– Ernest Rutherford

My mother was an economics professor. I’m proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

– Dave Hickey

You believe in God or statistics or the way your narrative differs from other people.

– Elizabeth McCracken

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

– George Bernard Shaw

Awards mean a lot, but they don’t say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.

– Ernie Banks

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.

– Eric Davis

Railing at scientists for massaging tree-ring statistics won’t stop the globe from warming if the globe is actually, you know, warming.

– Clive Thompson

I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.

– Dizzy Dean

There is a tendency in all of us to ask for better statistical performance. There is a tendency to impose quotas behind which usually lies imposition of pressure to achieve improved statistics.

– Gordon B. Hinckley

I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics.

– Matthew Gray Gubler

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.

– Daniel Hannan

There has been this – and it’s reflected in the broadcasts – this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic.

– Michael Lewis

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it’s about experience, it’s about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.

– Daniel Libeskind

I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won’t let me do that.

– Mike Schmidt

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

– David Lloyd George

There are some scary statistics out there: one in five kids aged 10-17 have received a sexual solicitation or approach via the Internet.

– Mark Kennedy

In 1973, I was offered a professorship at the University of California, San Diego. Although I was certainly not unhappy at Nottingham, I had been there over twenty years from starting undergraduate studies to Professor of Applied Statistics and Econometrics, and I thought that a change of scene was worth considering.

– Clive Granger

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.

– Marc Racicot

Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay.

– David Korten

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