309 Quotes About Statistics

I heard reiteration of the following claim: Complex theories do not work; simple algorithms do.I would like to demonstrate that in the area of science a good old principle is valid:Nothing is more practical than a good theory.

Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.

The statistic varied depending on who she was giving the speech to; roughly half the time with most military men, the first divulgence would happen before any pain was administered. Only 5 to 10 percent of the actual spies would say anything without some physical distress. Same numbers for religious zealots. For the low-level toadies, the speech worked 100 percent of the time. The man in charge had never once confessed as single detail without pain.

When it is a law abiding common person versus the police internal affairs regarding a corrupt or incompetent police officer, the statistics show that it is the common person that most frequently loses.

this book is part of what could be called a new wave in statistics teaching, in which formal probability theory as a basis for statistical inference does not come in till much later

Statistics are never a substitute for common sense.

Of course, if 40% of women need oxytocin to progress normally, then something is wrong with the definition of normal.

Flo especially took me in hand. When I felt I had to prove the existence of discrimination with statistics, for instance, she pulled me aside. 'If you're lying in the ditch with a truck on your ankle,' she said patiently, 'you don't send someone to the library to find out how much the truck weighs. You get it off!

The USA COVID-19 statistics are inaccurate.