Statistics Quotes - Page 15

Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.

Human beings are prone to believe the things they wish were true.

What money can buy has very little value beyond the necessaries of life.

Facts speak louder than statistics.

No one can tell time except approximately, time never stands still to be named.

In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.

"I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics".

We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.

Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of comparative chaos.

She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic.

He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?

Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?

Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind.

GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions.

I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, before NAFTA went into effect, there were 285,000 auto workers in Michigan. Today, that number is only 160,000.

In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology of today's illnesses and to recommend palliative treatments for what he has discovered.

Bayesian statistics is difficult in the sense that thinking is difficult.

Is it in the UK's interests to leave the EU? It depends on your values. The answer can't be read off of GDP statistics under various scenarios or some measures of global influence.

According to new statistics, Pope Francis is the most talked about person on the Internet. And not only that, he has the most viewed profile on Christian Mingle.

In the patient who succumbed, the cause of death was evidently something which was not found in the patient who recovered; this something we must determine, and then we can act on the phenomena or recognize and foresee them accurately. But not by statistics shall we succeed in this; never have statistics taught anything, and never can they teach anything about the nature of the phenomenon.

Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.

In the welter of statistics about selected ethnic origins (singular or multiple) in the last census, one finding was often overlooked. Of the 25,309,330 people living in Canada in 1986, only 69,065 declared themselves as Canadians.

The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it.

The training one receives when one becomes a technician, like a data scientist - we get trained in mathematics or computer science or statistics - is entirely separated from a discussion of ethics.