Statistics

Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.

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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

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Statistics has been the most successful information science.Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.

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The rise of biometry in this 20th century, like that of geometry in the 3rd century before Christ, seems to mark out one of the great ages or critical periods in the advance of the human understanding.

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A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's "big lie"; it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you.

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Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

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Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lampposts — for support rather than illumination.

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Without the aid of statistics nothing like real medicine is possible.

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While it is easy to lie with statistics, it is even easier to lie without them.

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91.7 percent of all statistics are made-up on the spot.

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In God we trust. All others must bring data.

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To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of his purpose.

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The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the art of statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and certain aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is thus a religious service.

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Average a left-hander with a right-hander and what do you get?

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Numbers and stats bob in a sentimental slop, a swampy slurry of bits of hard data and buckets of mushy manipulation.

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Thomasina: If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose? Do we believe nature is written in numbers? Thomasina: Armed thus, God could only make a cabinet.

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There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

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The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic.

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Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read or write.

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