Paul Simon Quotes

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.

The value of having numbers - data - is that they aren't subject to someone else's interpretation. They are just the numbers. You can decide what they mean for you.

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

Statistics is the plural of anecdote.

If we just focus on stats, we're gonna eventually not have them.

Statistics and numbers are no good unless you have good people to analyse and then interpret their meaning and importance.

Them as counts counts moren them as dont count

If a picture is worth a thousand words, in business, so is a number.

This is what analysts have calculated. It's a number that's out there and we're not arguing with it.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

The statistics might have a Eurosceptic cast, but they are not exactly a fun read. Few of us want to wade through ONS graphs or European Commission tables.

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

We spend our time bandying statistics about.

We must never let a blizzard of statistics blind us to the real lives and people behind them.

To understand God’s thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of his purpose.

All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation.

You'll never hear me talk about stats.

Stats are for losers. They relish in them.

The data are what matter in economics, and the more ruthlessness that an economist can summon to make sense of the data, the more useful his findings will be.

The numbers are hard to control.

I think putting numbers together into a coherent framework always seemed to me to be what really matters.

I don't really look at numbers. I couldn't tell you what my home-road stats are or anything like that.

I'm not too worried about stats and stuff like that.

I've got a lot of stats. I did a lot of stuff.