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Tag Name "Statistics" (524)

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The plural of anecdote is not data.
Marc Bekoff
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My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.
Ashleigh Brilliant
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If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.
Edward Tufte
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According to statistics, it's a lot easier to get hit by lightning than to win a Lotto jackpot. The good side: you don't hear from your relatives.
Johnny Carson
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All science is intelligent inference excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.
Stephen Jay Gould
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Statistics indicate that the average American is a guy named Brian who lives in Ohio.
Demetri Martin
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Example is always more efficacious than precept.
Samuel Johnson
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Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything.
Toby Harrah
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My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for grammar, for physics, for statistics, for all the hard subjects.... In short, I believe more than ever that programming should be a key part of the intellectual development of people growing up.
Seymour Papert
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The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.
Thomas Sowell
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The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.
William Godwin
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Years ago a statistician might have claimed that statistics deals with the processing of data. . . to-days statistician will be more likely to say that statistics is concerned with decision making in the face of uncertainty.
Herman Chernoff
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Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
Stephen Hawking
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The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.
John Boyle O'Reilly
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You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.
Robert Solow
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The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.
Milton Friedman
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Every thought is an afterthought.
Hannah Arendt
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Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every art: the one science essential to all political and social administration, all education, all organization based on experience, for it only gives results of our experience.
Florence Nightingale
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Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & how vnapte to serue in the world.
Roger Ascham
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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
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Can we consider the universe real, and if so, in what way?
Philip K. Dick
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What is algebra exactly is it those three-cornered things?
James M. Barrie
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Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics.
Jack Newfield
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Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices.
Benjamin Graham
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