Lord Carrington Quotes

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.

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

[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.

[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.

You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics.

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

Math is a language that you use to describe statistics, but really it's about collecting information and putting it in an order that makes sense.

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

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

Statistics is the plural of anecdote.

I've never been a stat guy.

Some people hate the very name of statistics, but I find them full of beauty and interest. Whenever they are not brutalized, but delicately handled by the higher methods, and are warily interpreted, their power of dealing with complicated phenomena is extraordinary. They are the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.

Economics in college was very poor; I was not very impressed with it. I actually wanted to study statistics. I discovered mathematical statistics as an undergraduate and was fascinated with it.

I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.

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

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.

Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.

Stats are for losers. They relish in them.

If you're a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis.

According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.

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

Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment.

The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.