#averages

The average IQ in America is—and this can be proven mathematically—average. ↗

— P.J. O'Rourke

#humour #iq-tests #maths #math

Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#baseball #batting #call #cards #could

I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head. ↗

— Dizzy Dean

#batting #got #hate #head #i

Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#beat #circle #deadly #difficult #even

God isn't really interested in our batting averages. ↗

— Dale Murphy

#batting #god #interested #our #really

If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do. ↗

— Vin Scully

#averages #batting #get #give #i

I was meeting the ball better. The averages don't always tell the whole truth. ↗

— George Sisler

#averages #ball #better #i #meeting

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. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#average #averages #case #day #good

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. ↗

— Bill Mauldin

#feel #fugitive #i #i feel #i feel like

Generalization is a natural human mental process, and many generalizations are true—in average. What often does promote evil behavior is the lazy, nasty habit of believing that generalizations have anything at all to do with individuals. ↗

— David Brin

#evil #generalization #generalizations #individual #individuals