#statistical

Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#dieting #even #ever #extremely #fat

Well, Well, Well, its certainly a compelling provocative exciting delicious to think about idea, smart people say the universe is so big there must be something statistically it could be likely there could be something happening on some other world. ↗

— Jeff Goldblum

#big #certainly #compelling #could #delicious

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#any #anybody #believe #claims #does

Unfortunately, Climate Science has become Political Science. It is tragic that some perhaps well-meaning but politically motivated scientists who should know better have whipped up a global frenzy about a phenomena which is statistically questionable at best. ↗

— Robert H. Austin

#become #best #better #climate #frenzy

Two years later, I went to the University of Minnesota from which I was on leave for several years during the war as a member of Statistical Research Group at Columbia University. ↗

— George Stigler

#columbia university #during #group #i #later

After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes. ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

#attention #brought #class #i #mechanics

Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at. ↗

— Tom Peters

#believe #doing #emotionally #good #help

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it. ↗

— Tom Peters

#because #being #believing #change #change the world

We don't know why we are here and the context of our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's something the human mind can't really grasp. It's statistically impossible that there's not life on other planets. ↗

— Joel Kinnaman

#grasp #here #human #human mind #impossible

Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human races. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#between #differences #human #learned #much