309 Quotes About Statistics

Statistics don't determine whether you find love or get married. You do!

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.

Lack of statistics is to hide inconvenient facts.

Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off.

Be careful of averages and how they’re applied. One way that they can fool you is if the average combines samples from disparate populations. This can lead to absurd observations such as:"On average, humans have one testicle.

The most important thing to know about statistics is that you don't have to be a statistic.

When you flip a coin there is a very small but finite chance you will never ever see that coin again.

No one loves the numbers more than I do, but numbers don’t measure everything, especially when it comes to evaluating defense. And in the end, I am going to trust Buck Showalter’s eyes more than a set of statistics devised by someone who never played the game.

To not look at the data is foolish, but to look at the data as having all the answers is even more foolish. It is a collision of new-school statistics and statisticians against old-school managers, coaches, and instructors. Neither side is right, neither is wrong; there is so much to be gained from listening to both sides.