Statistics Quotes - Page 31

• According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, before NAFTA went into effect, there were 285,000 auto workers in Michigan. Today, that number is only 160,000.

  Donald Trump

  Numbers, Michigan, Today

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself

  Winston Churchill

  Believe

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• Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Two, Emotion, Minutes

  "National Security Depends on the Nation’s Food Security" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2013.

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• What if one of her father’s soldiers panicked and fired for no reason? Though pilots were carefully trained, mistakes happened and she didn’t want to be included in a statistics report under “uh-oh, my bad.”’ (Kiara)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Father, Mistake, Soldier

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Night”, Macmillan

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• Throughout the world, half of all children go to bed hungry each night and one in seven of God's children is facing starvation. Before such statistics, believers should never forget Dostoevsky's assertion that the suffering of children is the greatest proof against the existence of God; for without justice, there is no God.

  Thomas Cahill

  Children, Night, Justice

  Thomas Cahill (2010). “The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels”, p.252, Anchor

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

  Victoria Azarenka

  Player, Thinking, Worst

  "Coffee break with Victoria Azarenka". Interview with Jon Wertheim, www.si.com. August 28, 2012.

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• In the patient who succumbed, the cause of death was evidently something which was not found in the patient who recovered; this something we must determine, and then we can act on the phenomena or recognize and foresee them accurately. But not by statistics shall we succeed in this; never have statistics taught anything, and never can they teach anything about the nature of the phenomenon.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Succeed, Taught

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.160, Courier Corporation

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• I had been hearing on-the-ground buzz that white folks were moving to places like Bend, Oregon, and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and St. George, Utah. That led me to discover through census data that these towns were already extremely white and they were becoming, in most cases, even whiter. Statistics could only tell me so much; in order to get to the spirit and essence of it, I had to immerse myself.

  Richard Benjamin

  Moving, Oregon, White

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth

  Alan K. Simpson

  Inspirational, Long, Enough

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• Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it's increasingly girls, not boys, who don't know how to read.

  Melinda Gates

  Girl, Fall, School

  Source: www.yahoo.com

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• The importance of infinite processes for the practical exigencies of technical life can hardly be overemphasized. Practically all applications of arithmetic to geometry, mechanics, physics and even statistics involve these processes directly and indirectly.

  Tobias Dantzig

  Physics, Infinite, Mechanic

  Tobias Dantzig (2005). “Number: The Language of Science”, Dutton Juvenile

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• Years ago, you never concerned yourself with pitch counts. Now, with statistics telling you that between this number and that number bad things happen to this particular pitcher, you have to pay attention to it. The bullpen has become a huge part of what happens now.

  Joe Torre

  Years, Numbers, Attention

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• A recent Pew Study revealed that 70% of Americans with a religious affiliation say that many religions lead to eternal life. Some people might think that "surely the statistics among evangelical Christians is different." Not by much.

  Robert Jeffress

  Christian, Religious, Thinking

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• There is a liberal bias. It's demonstrable. You look at some statistics. About 85 percent of the reporters who cover the White House vote Democratic, they have for a long time. There is a, particularly at the networks, at the lower levels, among the editors and the so-called infrastructure, there is a liberal bias.

  Evan Thomas

  Editors, White, Long

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• There's always been a shortage of roles for three-dimensional women, no matter what age. If you look at the statistics on women in film, be they behind the camera or in front of the camera, and it's pretty nauseous-making. It always has been.

  Sally Field

  Age, Matter, Cameras

  "We Spoke to Sally Field About Hello, My Name Is Doris, Women in Hollywood, and the Good Things That Come With Age". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. February 14, 2016.

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• Statistics don't lie. It's the people who make up the statistics that lie.

  George W. Buck

  Lying, People, Don't Lie

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• If two baseball players from the same hometown, on different teams, receive the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is a coincidence. If Barry Bonds attains lifetime statistics identical to his father's, it will not be ironic. It will be a coincidence.

  George Carlin

  Baseball, Team, Father

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Order, Data, Giving

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• 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

  Nice, Racing, Mind

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• The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Requirements, Firsts

  An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (p. 136)

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• 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.

  John Shaw Billings

  Science, Men, Use

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• Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to prosecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.

  Vaclav Havel

  War, Lying, Past

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• There is certainly the intention of efforts like the Common Core to raise education standards and make sure that every student masters advanced math concepts - algebra, geometry, statistics and probability.

  Anya Kamenetz

  Math, Effort, Common

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• [Freud's] great strength, though sometimes also his weakness, was the quite extraordinary respect he had for the singular fact... When he got hold of a simple but significant fact he would feel, and know, that it was an example of something general or universal, and the idea of collecting statistics on the matter was quite alien to him.

  Ernest Jones

  Science, Simple, Ideas

  Ernest Jones (1961). “The life and work of Sigmund Freud”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• If you look at the statistics regarding Native Americans, you will see that most of the tribes since the 70s have improved their economic situation in some form. And this has been brought about by their aggressive assertion of their sovereign treaty rights.

  Leonard Peltier

  Native American, Rights, Sovereign

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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