#statistics

Democracy is an abuse of statistics. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#abuse #democracy #statistics

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used. ↗

— Stanley Smith Stevens

#measure #placed #statistics #type #used

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#calculations #complex #experience #interesting #just

I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning. ↗

— Mark Messier

#as far as #brought #concept #everything #far

The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired. ↗

— Major Owens

#breaks #computer #computers #down #end

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie. ↗

— Harry Reasoner

#apple pie #baseball #crust #mom #pie

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#form #fulfillment #like #statistics #wish

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#almost #analyze #any #argument #statistics

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. ↗

— Josiah Stamp

#collect #cube #diagrams #government #keen

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up. ↗

— Rex Stout

#kinds #look #make #make up #statistics