#statistic

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. ↗

— Evan Esar

#definition #facts #figures #producing #reliable

I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#artist #car #cook #etc #fix

It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#been #hollywood #i #joke #marriage

I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#another #bad #i #instead #math

Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities. ↗

— Leonard Woodcock

#american #american cities #balance #between #bureau

You're trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don't know these people, you don't know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts to nothing more than speculation. ↗

— Marc Racicot

#correlate #correlation #find #hard #here

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment. ↗

— Ernest Rutherford

#done #experiment #needs #ought #statistics

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end. ↗

— Tom Seaver

#aim #baseball #consistency #dwell #end

The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link. ↗

— Josiah Stamp

#individual #link #may #source #statistics

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#lies #lying #statistics #truth #truth