#statistics

I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly! ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#humor #intelligence #mathematics #statistics #education

It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. ↗

— Fletcher Knebel

#causes #doubt #leading #now #proved

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination. ↗

— Vin Scully

#illumination #like #much #statistics #support

Consumers are statistics. Customers are people. ↗

— Stanley Marcus

#customers #people #statistics

Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not! ↗

— Jack Paar

#bedroom #i #interesting #into #kid

They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there. ↗

— Mike Schmidt

#butts #con #either #fans #give

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#humanity #life #media #statistics #tragedy

If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment. ↗

— Ernest Rutherford

#science #statistics #experience

Nature has established patterns originating in the return of events, but only for the most part. New illnesses flood the human race, so that no matter how many experiments you have done on corpses, you have not thereby immposd a limit on the nature of events so that in the future they could not vary. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#leibniz #regression #statistics #experience

Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#family