Statistics Quotes
It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.
Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.
The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.
Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.
A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough.
If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to have within their grasp.
How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information.
Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God.
In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.
What nature hath joined together, multiple regression analysis cannot put asunder.
Some of the greatest masterpieces of art are created against the odds of reality.from the book: stuff i think about
Conventional wisdom nor scientific, mathematical prove of randomness in life could do nothing to deter human's curiosity for the unknown, however small the chance of a positive outcome maybe.
...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable.
A certain elementary training in statistical method is becoming as necessary for everyone living in this world of today as reading and writing.
With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.
Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics.
Total violent crime in the United States 2013: (Number:1, 163, 146), (Rate per 100, 000: 367.9).
In 2012, an estimated 14, 827 persons were murdered in the United States.-- Federal Bureau of Investigation
...the facts of economic life cannot be comprehensively described in terms of statistics.
Who needs theory when you have so much information? But this is categorically the wrong attitude to take toward forecasting, especially in a field like economics where the data is so noisy.
By the time your perfect information has been gathered, the world has moved on.
We encounter regression to the mean almost every day of our lives. We should try to anticipate it, recognize it, and not be fooled by it.
In a world with amazing amounts of statistics and demographics available, If you don't utilize foresight, statistics, demographics, projections and predictions the competition will.
When moral posturing is replaced by an honest assessment of the data, the result is often a new, surprising insight.
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.
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.