309 Quotes About Statistics

Sloane slipped an arm around my waist. "There are fourteen varieties of hugs," she said. "This is one of them.

If you want what’s best for your kids, one surefire way to provide them with a healthy, happy home is to make sure they have lesbian parents. In the longest-running study of lesbian families to date,2 zero percent of children reported physical or sexual abuse—not a one. In the general population, 26 percent of children report physical abuse and 8.3 percent report sexual abuse.

Statistics lie. They are designed to sway opinions. Take the time to keep yourself informed on things that matter.

Statistics were magic like this: they could tell you with near-certainty that a thing would occur, without a hint of when or where.

The non-scientist in the street probably has a clearer notion of physics, chemistry and biology than of statistics, regarding statisticians as numerical philatelists, mere collector of numbers.

A small sample, we repeat, is rarely the big scientific problem. Interpretation is.

If proof were needed that statistics alone are not enough in establishing value, then VT Trumper is that proof.

...it is worth looking closer and remembering something Marcos Alvito told me: Statistics are like a bikini. They show so much, but they hide the most important parts.

If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the limited, as being better, is sure to be found, wherever possible, rather than the unlimited.