Quotes About Statistics

The way we work in public health is, we make the best recommendations and decisions based on the best available data.

Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.

Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty."

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

In God we trust; all others bring data.

Without data, you're just another person with an opinion.

These suggestions are only preliminary. A statistician on the job will of course modify and revise them to suit his own inclinations and local conditions.

Beds are dangerous. More people die in bed than anywhere else.

I have to absorb the new season like sunlight, letting it turn my winter skin pink and then brown. I must stuff myself with lore and statistics until my fingers ooze balm.

Regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one.

The million, million, million ... to one chance happens once in a million, million, million ... times no matter how surprised we may be that it results in us.

Very little evidence was found that any individual fund was able to do significantly better than that which we expected from mere random chance.

Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.

Kids who drink alcohol, fairly regularly before they're 14 have a 48% chance... of becoming alcoholics.

Statistically speaking, there's a better chance that some part of me will go on to greatness somewhere in the world. I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

Statistically, you don't have much chance of becoming president if you're not tall and fairly handsome or at least conventional-looking.

I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I'm joking, but who would've guessed that computer engineers would've been the sexy job of the 1990s?

You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.

Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics.

If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.

Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation

Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician.

Fifty per cent of all marriages end in divorce. But look at the bright side: the other 50 per cent end in death.

it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.