#statistic

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

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The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used. ↗

— Stanley Smith Stevens

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The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions to promote the cause of revolution. ↗

— John T. Flynn

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In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

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There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic. ↗

— Michael Lewis

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Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

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This is a frightening statistic. More people vote in 'American Idol' than in any US election. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

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Statistics is the grammar of science. ↗

— Karl Pearson

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You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

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Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into--what else?--another piece of news. Thus we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing. ↗

— Neil Postman

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