#statistics

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination. ↗

— Andrew Lang

#illumination #lamp #man #posts #rather

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

#calculations #complex #experience #interesting #just

Big companies are often in the process of laying off workers. Small startup companies are the ones that are hiring. The statistics prove that's where job growth is going to occur. ↗

— Jerry Moran

#big companies #companies #going #growth #hiring

Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics. ↗

— Jerry Only

#close #danny #days #i #look

We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#doing #had #handing #him #i

There are lies, damned lies and statistics. ↗

— Mark Twain

#lies #statistics

And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex than the way feminists had portrayed it, as men oppressing women. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#date #exaggerated #feminists #had #i

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation. ↗

— Kim Campbell

#design #greater #human #human situation #mainly

Statistics are no substitute for judgment. ↗

— Henry Clay

#statistics #substitute

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance. ↗

— Morris Kline

#mathematical #statistics #theory