He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamppost
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He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than for illumination.
One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is th
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One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.
I always find that statistics are hard to swallow
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I always find that statistics are hard to swallow and impossible to digest. The only one I can ever remember is that if all the people who go to sleep in church were laid end to end they would be a lot more comfortable.
The average human has one breast and one testicle
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The average human has one breast and one testicle.
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at mat
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
Statistics can be made to prove anything - even t
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Statistics can be made to prove anything - even the truth.
I abhor averages. I like the individual cas
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I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.
Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped
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Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off.
98% of all statistics are made up.
Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.
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Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.
Do not put your faith in what statistics say unti
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Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing
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The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus.
Statistics are like bikinis. What they reve
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Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
I could prove God statistically. Take the h
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I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.
Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virt
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Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases.
The death of one man is a tragedy. The deat
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The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you l
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There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
Then there is the man who drowned crossing a stre
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Then there is the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of six inches.
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