Top Statistics Quotes

Information or allegations reflecting negatively on individuals or groups seen less sympathetically by the intelligentsia pass rapidly into the public domain with little scrutiny and much publicity. T...

Scientists and inventors of the USA (especially in the so-called "blue state" that voted overwhelmingly against Trump) have to think long and hard whether they want to continue research that will help...

Statistics Definition

(n.) The science which has to do with the collection and classification of certain facts respecting the condition of the people in a state.

(n.) Classified facts respecting the condition of the people in a state, their health, their longevity, domestic economy, arts, property, and political strength, their resources, the state of the country, etc., or respecting any particular class or interest; especially, those facts which can be stated in numbers, or in tables of numbers, or in any tabular and classified arrangement.

(n.) The branch of mathematics which studies methods for the calculation of probabilities.

The USA utility power generation industry subcontracts out their dangerous jobs so that the bad statisitics will not be associated with them. Smart people avoid working for the subcontractors. I have...

Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics.

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...

We encounter regression to the mean almost every day of our lives. We should try to anticipate it, recognize it, and not be fooled by it.

We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates.

All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.

One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.

I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

While it might have surprised onlookers, undergraduates in the 2000s were in fact having less sex than their predecessors in the 1980s and '90s - if you accepted their definition of sex as vaginal int...

Total violent crime in the United States 2013: (Number:1,163,146), (Rate per 100,000: 367.9).

A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.

Some of the greatest masterpieces of art are created against the odds of reality.from the book: stuff i think about

Outside of the killings, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

Stats don't measure an athlete's hunger.

While most of us are comfortable acknowledging that luck plays a role in what we do, we have difficulty assessing its role after the fact. Once something has occurred and we can put together a story t...

I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.