309 Quotes About Statistics

When moral posturing is replaced by an honest assessment of the data, the result is often a new, surprising insight.

More data means more information, but it also means more false information.

Skepticism is always a good first response.

Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day.

One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.

Whenever I read statistical reports, I try to imagine my unfortunate contemporary, the Average Person, who, according to these reports, has 0.66 children, 0.032 cars, and 0.046 TVs.

...when one considers that there are more than 750,000 police officers in the United States and that these officers have tens of millions of interactions with citizens each year, it is clear that police shootings are extremely rare events and that few officers--less than one-half of 1 percent each year--ever shoot anyone.

Regression analysis is the hydrogen bomb of the statistics arsenal.

It matters who is included in the average, and who is excluded.