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Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.


Morris Kline


#mathematical #statistics #theory

Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay.


David Korten


#deceiving #due #generally #growth #jobs

Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities.


Leonard Woodcock


#american #american cities #balance #between #bureau

He could not believe that any of them might actually hit somebody. If one did, what a nowhere way to go: killed by accident; slain not as an individual but by sheer statistical probability, by the calculated chance of searching fire, even as he himself might be at any moment. Mathematics! Mathematics! Algebra! Geometry! When 1st and 3d Squads came diving and tumbling back over the tiny crest, Bell was content to throw himself prone, press his cheek to the earth, shut his eyes, and lie there. God, oh, God! Why am I here? Why am I here? After a moment's thought, he decided he better change it to: why are we here. That way, no agency of retribution could exact payment from him for being selfish.


James Jones


#bell #death #fear #geometry #machine-guns

Statistics is the grammar of science.


Karl Pearson


#science #statistics

You're trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don't know these people, you don't know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts to nothing more than speculation.


Marc Racicot


#correlate #correlation #find #hard #here

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.


Ernest Rutherford


#done #experiment #needs #ought #statistics

If the statistics are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers.


Edward R. Tufte


#design #statistics #visualization #design

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.


Benjamin Disraeli


#lies #lying #statistics #truth #truth

Above all else show the data.


Edward R. Tufte


#graphics #statistics #visualization






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