Statistics Quotes - Page 12

If you look at the statistics regarding Native Americans, you will see that most of the tribes since the 70s have improved their economic situation in some form. And this has been brought about by their aggressive assertion of their sovereign treaty rights.

Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.

The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.

Too darned good a machine can be a menace, not a help.

Why speculate when you can calculate?

We have the best customer satisfaction record, based on Transportation Dept. statistics, of any airline in America, the fewest complaints filed per 100,000 passengers carried. So you're not just getting low fares, you're also getting wonderful customer service.

The statistics requested respecting the number of crimes that have been solved by tracing the firearm back to the registered owner are not kept at this time and are therefore not available.

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.

The statistics of mines that need clearance are staggering but the truth is it's a challenge that is absolutely doable.

It may be meaningless, but at least it's a gesture.

It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.

Insight is not the same as scientific deduction, but even at that it may be more reliable than statistics.

Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time.

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

What used to be called prejudice is now called a null hypothesis.

I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself

The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.

It is clear that Economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science ... simply because it deals with quantities... As the complete theory of almost every other science involves the use of calculus, so we cannot have a true theory of Economics without its aid.

If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to have within their grasp.

A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough.

It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future.

Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is to have a Senate committee appointed to look into it.