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Quotes About Statistical

The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not
~ Orson Scott Card
It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven
~ Josh Billings
psychology is passing into a less simple phase. Within a few years what one may call a microscopic psychology has arisen in Germany, carried on by experimental methods, asking of course every moment for introspective data, but eliminating their uncertainty by operating on a large scale and taking statistical means.
~ William James
If this was madness it was an entirely new kind of madness, as yet undocumented in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. She had nerdophrenia. She was dorkotic.
~ Lev Grossman
On any pure theory of causality or statistical probability, organization would be completely improbable without the external aid of a divine organizer.
~ Lewis Mumford
Beta is a statistical measure that attempts to give the investor a clue as to how volatile a stock may be.
~ Unknown
In my experience, any trend that reaches the point where large organizations are inflicting it on their personnel has a high statistical probability of being stupid.
~ Dave Barry
That it is statistically easier for low-IQ people to kick an addiction than it is for high-IQ people... That boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them.
~ David Foster Wallace
IQ is a statistical method for quantifying specific kinds of problem-solving ability, mathematically convenient but not necessarily corresponding to a real attribute of the human brain, and not necessarily representing whatever it is that we mean by 'intelligence'.
~ Ian Stewart
In a review of the relevant literature it is shown that happiness is statistically abnormal, consists of a discrete cluster of symptoms, is associated with a range of cognitive abnormalities, and probably reflects the abnormal functioning of the central nervous system.
~ Philip Roth
Collecting data using improper methods can spoil any statistical analysis
~ Unknown
There is no comfort in being a statistical exception. It's like having a rare disease or being the victim of outrageous misfortune - you keep asking yourself, Why me? Why not someone else?
~ Michael Robotham
An endless stream of the most powerful energy of love emanates from your beauty. I am attracted to you intuitively. You are beautiful in body and soul, all statistical and strategic data prove this. You are beautiful, this is a proven fact. A geyser of sentimentality pierces me from the inside when I see you. You are always trending in my heart. Your legendary beauty has merged with my consciousness and subconsciousness.
~ Unknown
Master Elodin" I said breathing a little hard, "Might I ask you a quick question?" "Statistically speaking it's pretty likely".. "May I ask you a question then?" "I doubt any power known to man could stop you.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Empathy is limited as well in that it focuses on specific individuals. Its spotlight nature renders it innumerate and myopic: It doesn't resonate properly to the effects of our actions on groups of people, and it is insensitive to statistical data and estimated costs and benefits.
~ Paul Bloom
empathy distorts our moral judgments in pretty much the same way that prejudice does. Empathy is limited as well in that it focuses on specific individuals. Its spotlight nature renders it innumerate and myopic: It doesn't resonate properly to the effects of our actions on groups of people, and it is insensitive to statistical data and estimated costs and benefits
~ Paul Bloom
Moreover, data science (and business in general) is not so worried about statistical significance, but more concerned with optimizing overall effort and results.
~ Unknown