#statistic

Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ↗

— Larry Lorenzoni

#statistics-humor #humor

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#always #appears #certainty #everyday #guise

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

— Richard Dawkins

#essence #improbability #life #scale #statistical

We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#doing #had #handing #him #i

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

— Michael Lewis

#sports #statistics #art

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. ↗

— Evan Esar

#definition #facts #figures #producing #reliable

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

#directly #easily #experience #had #i

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance. ↗

— Morris Kline

#mathematical #statistics #theory

Whenever I read statistical reports, I try to imagine my unfortunate contemporary, the Average Person, who, according to these reports, has 0.66 children, 0.032 cars, and 0.046 TVs. ↗

— Kató Lomb

#statistics #humor

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination. ↗

— Andrew Lang

#illumination #man #rather #statistics #support