#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

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

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

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

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

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

— Evan Esar

#definition #facts #figures #producing #reliable

Statistics are no substitute for judgment. ↗

— Henry Clay

#statistics #substitute

However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today. ↗

— Bob Filner

#areas #been #big #california #case