Quotes About Statistics

Maybe I'm obsessed with numbers because they always tell a story and unlike people, they never lie.

In Operations, many of our data sets have what we call 'chi squared' distribution. Using

In 2012, an estimated 14,827 persons were murdered in the United States. -- Federal Bureau of Investigation

When you cure a blind person, he or she is not a statistic.

United States Weather Bureau concluded that over 8,000 square miles,* 9 trillion gallons of water fell, weighing 33 billion tons.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.

Eleven out of twelve work fine. I'd say that's better chances than getting an orgasm with a blind date and women still try.

NeighborhoodScout.com and Movoto.com offer information about neighborhoods and crime statistics. NextDoor.com helps you identify neighborhoods you might want to live in and connect with neighbors, while Safewise.com helps you figure out how safe that neighborhood is.

Statistically speaking, he reflects, you're more likely to be killed by a member of your own family or a close friend, than by anyone else.

Undoubtedly his greatest contributions were in the field of psychohistory. Seldon found the field little more than a set of vague axioms; he left it a profound statistical science.… … The best existing authority we have for the details of his life is the biography

Gaal Dornick, utilizando conceptos no matemáticos, ha definido la psicohistoria como la rama de las matemáticas que trata sobre las reacciones de conglomeraciones humanas ante determinados estímulos sociales y económicos

La psicohistoria no trataba del hombre, sino de las masas de hombres. Era la ciencia de las muchedumbres, de miles de millones de personas. Podía prever las reacciones a diferentes estímulos con la misma exactitud que una ciencia menor predecía el rebote de una bola de billar. La reacción de un hombre se podía vaticinar por medio de las matemáticas conocidas, pero la de mil millones era algo distinto

It is enough for a Psychohistorian, as such, to know his Biostatistics and his Neurochemical Electromathematics. Some know nothing else and are fit only to be statistical technicians. But a Speaker must be able to discuss the Plan without mathematics.

There's zero evidence, empirical or anecdotal, that more guns leads to less gun crime.

If you look at the data, the inner city that was the riot zone lost 55,000 jobs in the ten years from 1992 to 2002, instead of gaining a surplus of 50,000.

In the three years I played ball, we won six, lost seventeen and tied two. Some statistician ... calculated that we won 75 percent of the games we didn't lose.

If you do everything you should do, and do not do anything you should not do, you will, according to the best available statistics, live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise.

Jellinek's disease (alcoholism) is responsible for: 50 percent of all auto fatalities 80 percent of all home violence 30 percent of all suicides 60 percent of all child abuse 65 percent of all drownings It is estimated that when a woman contracts the disease, her husband leaves her in nine out often cases; when a man contracts it, his wife leaves in one out of ten cases.

I could prove God statistically.

I'm a mathematician. I can trade in facts about false positives and absolute truths about accuracy and statistics with complete confidence.

You're trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don't know these people, you don't know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts to nothing more than speculation.