Statistics Quotes - Page 32

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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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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The statistics John Wesson has compiled in The Science of Soccer show that Premiership football players are vastly more likely to have been born in the first half of the school year. These were the biggest boys in the class and were thus selected for the school team. How fair is that?

Daniel Finkelstein

Soccer, Football, Team

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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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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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You and I are forever at the mercy of the census-taker and the census-maker. That impertinent fellow who goes from house to house is one of the real masters of the statistical situation. The other is the man who organizes the results.

Walter Lippmann

Real, Men, House

Lippmann, Walter

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I have no statistics to prove it, but I'm sure the American workplace will be adversely affected on Monday, the day after XXIV. The game will be the focus of conversation, and distractions happy and sad will be the order of the day, not to mention millions of hangovers. I wouldn't buy a toaster or a parachute manufactured the day after Super Bowl XXIV. You cannot engender such torrid anticipation for an event so great that it requires Roman numerals as a suffix, then expect there to be no social repercussions at its end.

Robert Klein

Monday, Hangover, Order

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Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet.

Robert Reich

Funny, Humorous, Reality

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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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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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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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Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.

Rita Mae Brown

Literature, Quarters, Accounting

Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.121, Bantam

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If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion

George Bernard Shaw

World, Able, Toes

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Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics.

Robert Solow

Growth, Computer, Economist

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Half of all kids in public education are below the poverty line. Two-thirds of the achievement gap comes from factors outside of school. Teachers influence about seven to ten percent of what happens in kids' lives. When you think about those statistics, you have to think about how to re-envision education so it's holistic and so we share responsibility.

Randi Weingarten

Teacher, School, Kids

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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we’d be terrified.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Real, Facts, Mortality

"The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is". Interview with Errol Morris, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 23, 2010.

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Statistics were magic like this: they could tell you with near-certainty that a thing would occur, without a hint of when or where.

Hugh Howey

Magic, Hints, Certainty

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Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.

Joe Torre

Baseball, Negative, Filled

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Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.

Bernie Siegel

People, Giving, Stories

"The Power of Words: Revising the Doctor-Patient Relationship" by Bernie Siegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2010.

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Jews, Germans, and Allies is an important historical document, especially in light of those revisionists who would impose a universal amnesia about the suffering and losses incurred during the Holocaust. The grim statistics that Ms. Grossmann presents in her carefully researched and well-organized book carry evidence of the terrible truth. But the testimony of the survivors she quotes contains the final, ineradicable facts of history.

Hilma Wolitzer

Book, Loss, Light

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It would be worth the while to select our reading, for books are the society we keep; to read only the serenely true; never statistics, nor fiction, nor news, nor reports, nor periodicals, but only great poems, and when they failed, read them again, or perchance write more. Instead of other sacrifice, we might offer up our perfect (teleia) thoughts to the gods daily, in hymns or psalms. For we should be at the helm at least once a day.

Henry David Thoreau

Book, Reading, Writing

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.83, Delphi Classics

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To switch lads and lassies from quickie ceremonies back to the catered works in to-be-worm-only-once white dresses, the [wedding] garment producers have turned to sociology. Through statistics as carefully laid out as a bridal train, they are establishing a correlation showing a higher divorce rate for the informally gowned.... They may just have something there.... If a bride has sunk a bunk of savings into a dress she can't use again in a second wedding, she might think twice about having a second.

Malcolm Forbes

Marriage, Divorce, Thinking

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Data-driven statistics has the danger of isolating statistics from the rest of the scientific and mathematical communities by not allowing valuable cross-pollination of ideas from other fields.

Lawrence Shepp

Science, Data, Ideas

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There is something inhuman and vaguely pornographic about statistics... Pornography, on the other hand, with its loosely bound sequences of storyless sexual couplings often has the feel of a statistical survey.

John Allen Paulos

Science, Hands, Mathematics

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