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Statistics Quotes
Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not. - Edward Burnett Tylor Quotes
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts, for support rather than illumination. - Andrew Lang Quotes
Statistics are no substitute for judgment. - Henry Clay Quotes
There are over 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country, and statistics have shown that the recidivism rate for those criminals is high. - Jim Sensenbrenner Quotes
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. - Mark Twain Quotes
People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. Ive seen statistics that are just staggering. - Michael Zaslow Quotes
There has been this - and its reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic. - Michael Lewis Quotes
We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place. - Gunther Grass Quotes
I enjoy being in school. Ive learned so much already, with taking economics and law, and I have marketing and statistics coming up next. - Lisa Leslie Quotes
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 Quotes
Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Moms apple pie. - Harry Reasoner Quotes
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 Quotes
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If theyre okay, then its you. - Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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 Quotes
Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. - Hilaire Belloc Quotes
The buffalo isnt as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo. - Art Buchwald Quotes
We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in reality. And reality has a well known liberal bias. - Stephen Colbert Quotes
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 Quotes
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. - Alphonse Allais Quotes
In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end. - Tom Seaver Quotes
Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business. - Zig Ziglar Quotes
We were not given any statistics as to how many records were pressed on the blue label. I used to ask Bob Shad how we were going to get paid from record sales and what I got for an answer was not to worry about the business end of the deal. - Phil Harris Quotes
I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds. - Alan Shepard Quotes
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 Quotes
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive. - George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. that It has not been accepted, because weve been in an anthropocentric era. - Story Musgrave Quotes
Youre trying too hard to find a correlation here. You dont know these people, you dont know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts to nothing more than speculation. - Marc Racicot Quotes
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? - Dennis Prager Quotes
Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination. - Vin Scully Quotes
An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination. - Andrew Lang Quotes
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