#statistics

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#form #fulfillment #like #statistics #wish

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#blaming #far #irrespective #many #moved

There are over 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country, and statistics have shown that the recidivism rate for those criminals is high. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

#country #criminals #high #offenders #over

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#dead #go #how #man #nurture

The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases. ↗

— Josiah Stamp

#science #statistics #science

I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly! ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#humor #intelligence #mathematics #statistics #education

It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. ↗

— Fletcher Knebel

#causes #doubt #leading #now #proved

Consumers are statistics. Customers are people. ↗

— Stanley Marcus

#customers #people #statistics

Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not! ↗

— Jack Paar

#bedroom #i #interesting #into #kid

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#humanity #life #media #statistics #tragedy