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Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.


Morris Kline


#mathematical #statistics #theory

Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay.


David Korten


#deceiving #due #generally #growth #jobs

He could not believe that any of them might actually hit somebody. If one did, what a nowhere way to go: killed by accident; slain not as an individual but by sheer statistical probability, by the calculated chance of searching fire, even as he himself might be at any moment. Mathematics! Mathematics! Algebra! Geometry! When 1st and 3d Squads came diving and tumbling back over the tiny crest, Bell was content to throw himself prone, press his cheek to the earth, shut his eyes, and lie there. God, oh, God! Why am I here? Why am I here? After a moment's thought, he decided he better change it to: why are we here. That way, no agency of retribution could exact payment from him for being selfish.


James Jones


#bell #death #fear #geometry #machine-guns

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.


Heinrich Heine


#cannot #feed #hungry #statistics #you

Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.


Scott Dikkers


#humor #infidelity #love #relationships #romance

The value for which P=0.05, or 1 in 20, is 1.96 or nearly 2; it is convenient to take this point as a limit in judging whether a deviation ought to be considered significant or not. Deviations exceeding twice the standard deviation are thus formally regarded as significant. Using this criterion we should be led to follow up a false indication only once in 22 trials, even if the statistics were the only guide available. Small effects will still escape notice if the data are insufficiently numerous to bring them out, but no lowering of the standard of significance would meet this difficulty.


Ronald A. Fisher


#statistics #design

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


Benjamin Disraeli


#lies #lying #statistics #truth #truth

Another mistaken notion connected with the law of large numbers is the idea that an event is more or less likely to occur because it has or has not happened recently. The idea that the odds of an event with a fixed probability increase or decrease depending on recent occurrences of the event is called the gambler's fallacy. For example, if Kerrich landed, say, 44 heads in the first 100 tosses, the coin would not develop a bias towards the tails in order to catch up! That's what is at the root of such ideas as "her luck has run out" and "He is due." That does not happen. For what it's worth, a good streak doesn't jinx you, and a bad one, unfortunately , does not mean better luck is in store.


Leonard Mlodinow


#luck #math #probability #statistics #math

Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God.


Richelle E. Goodrich


#almighty #god #likelihood #might #omnipotence

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






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