309 Quotes About Statistics

I don't believe in the glory and the dream. I believe in statistics.

Increasing the number of independent observers reduces subjectivity bias, and enhances the objectivity of the study.

I have stressed this distinction because it is an important one. It defines the fundamental difference between probability and statistics: the former concerns predictions based on fixed probabilities; the latter concerns the inference of those probabilities based on observed data.

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.

You can flip a coin but Schrodinger's pet cat will still be in that box.

...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable.

Everyone is just a set of numbers that the government has access to. Humanity lies in the interpretation of those numbers.

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

We have presumed based not on our own but on others’ deaths that we are mortal.