#statistic

Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully 93 percent of additional income gains coming out of the recession went straight into the wallets and purses of the top 1 percent. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#collapse #coming #covering #economic #financial

There's a fascinating statistic: One out of every four people in America has visited New York since 9/11. It is astounding. Now, I don't know how you count it; it's some people coming multiple times. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#astounding #coming #count #every #fascinating

In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#being #effort #get #got #people

The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#business #business community #community #difficult #difficult task

Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer] ↗

— Michael Lewis

#sports #statistics #art

There are lies, damned lies and statistics. ↗

— Mark Twain

#lies #statistics

Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things. ↗

— Nate Silver

#different #different things #perceive #really #statistically

You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects. ↗

— Nate Silver

#build #choices #dealing #example #financial

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#being #contented #existing #fact #here

The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases. ↗

— Josiah Stamp

#science #statistics #science