#statistic

I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity. ↗

— George Gallup

#body #chances #could #functions #god

Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious. ↗

— Scott Dikkers

#humor #infidelity #love #relationships #romance

The value for which P=0.05, or 1 in 20, is 1.96 or nearly 2; it is convenient to take this point as a limit in judging whether a deviation ought to be considered significant or not. Deviations exceeding twice the standard deviation are thus formally regarded as significant. Using this criterion we should be led to follow up a false indication only once in 22 trials, even if the statistics were the only guide available. Small effects will still escape notice if the data are insufficiently numerous to bring them out, but no lowering of the standard of significance would meet this difficulty. ↗

— Ronald A. Fisher

#statistics #design

I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged. ↗

— Roger Jones

#mathematics #statistics #mathematics

Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.' ↗

— George Brett

#around #ball game #baseball #baseball game #before

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#business #business owners #complain #complaining #customer

Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning. ↗

— Chili Davis

#baseball #come #enjoyment #everything #get

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#difficult #explain #improbable #more #nature

It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it is in any animal merely statistical - not deterministic. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#any #fully #genetic #important #important point

I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head. ↗

— Dizzy Dean

#batting #got #hate #head #i