There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and statistical methods are necessary in reporting the mass data of social and economic trends, business conditions, 'opinion' polls, the census. But without writers who use the words with honesty and understanding and readers who know what they mean, the result can only be semantic nonsense.
I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.
Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.
It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
We know nothing until intuition agrees.
Every thought is an afterthought.
Figures don't lie, but liars figure.
I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.
It is utterly implausible that a mathematical formula should make the future known to us, and those who think it can would once have believed in witchcraft.
The statistical method is required in the interpretation of figures which are at the mercy of numerous influences, and its object is to determine whether individual influences can be isolated and their effects measured. The essence of the method lies in the determination that we are really comparing like with like, and that we have not overlooked a relevant factor which is present in Group A and absent from Group B. The variability of human beings in their illnesses and in their reactions to them is a fundamental reason for the planned clinical trial and not against it.
Why speculate when you can calculate?
If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.
Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.
The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.
When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.
I bathe in statistics.
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
We must be both rational and intellectual, both analytic and imaginative, utilizing both statistics and insight.
I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I'm not kidding.
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