Statistics Quotes - Page 33

• The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.

  Major Owens

  Home, Long, Incentives

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• The church has paid a terrible price for statistics!

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Church, Terrible, Paid

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• But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world. Bell curves and random walks define what the future is going to look like. The standard pedagogical argument is that high schools should get rid of calculus and replace it with statistics, which is really important and actually useful. There has been a powerful shift toward the idea that statistical ways of thinking are going to drive the future.

  Peter Thiel

  Powerful, School, Thinking

  "Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 13 Notes Essay". blakemasters.com. May 20, 2012.

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• Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Baseball

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• Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics.

  Robert Solow

  Growth, Computer, Economist

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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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• I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences.

  Ronald Fisher

  Believe, Teaching, Men

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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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• 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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• 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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• Technology and the Internet have created a new set of relationships. It's changed the social fabric of promotion: advertising, dating. Part of art world judgment, part of it, is based on people's statistics; their measure of financial value: of likes, of popularity. Data and technology are invading the traditional and classic set of criteria.

  Steve Miller

  Art, Technology, Data

  Source: museemagazine.com

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• Non-Western immigrants, often Muslims, are over-represented in statistics of crime, of dependency on social benefits, that we have honour killings, that we have genital mutilation, that we have streets where women with headscarves and burqas are not the exception any more. And that it's getting worse.

  Geert Wilders

  Benefits, Killing, Crime

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

  Richard Dawkins

  Life, Science, Reality

  The Blind Watchmaker Chapter 11

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• This is a dishonest administration, because it is becoming clear that the unemployment statistics of the [Barack] Obama administration are not believable.

  Nat Hentoff

  Becoming, Unemployment, Administration

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.

  Wendell Berry

  Land, Agriculture, Income

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.144, Counterpoint

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• African-American men are more likely to be killed in police incidents, stopped and searched, and sentenced to longer prison terms than white men convicted of similar crimes. Behind these statistics are heart-wrenching stories of lives cut short and families ripped apart.

  Hillary Clinton

  Heart, Cutting, Men

  "Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Discuss Student Debt, Immigration, and More". Interview with Judith Ohikuare, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 11, 2016.

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• I live by statistics, so if look at U.S. Census statistics regarding families making over $100,000 dollars a year, 93% of them have broadband internet at home.

  David L. Cohen

  Home, Years, Dollars

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I noticed one thing. According to the ABA statistics, only 3.5 percent of lawyers in America in 2000 were Hispanic, yet they - Hispanics make up 5 percent of the federal district court judges and 6 percent of circuit court judges.

  Jeff Sessions

  America, Court Judges, Judging

  "In Sotomayor Hearings, Jeff Sessions Was Fixated on Discrimination Against White People". www.motherjones.com. November 28, 2016.

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• In the same way that I tend to make up my mind about people within thirty seconds of meeting them, I also make up my mind about whether a business proposal excites me within about thirty seconds of looking at it. I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.

  Richard Branson

  People, Mind, Way

  Richard Branson (2005). “Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography”, Virgin Pub

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• A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong." Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked.

  Danny Hillis

  Cycling, Knights, Broken

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• When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.

  Hippocrates

  May, Appearance, Should

  Hippocrates (1900*). “Aphorisms”, p.14, Library of Alexandria

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• And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.

  Hippocrates

  Matter, States, Cures

  Hippocrates (1849). “The Genuine Works of Hippocrates”, p.234

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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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