Jamie Carragher Quotes

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

There is a reasonable concern that posting raw data can be misleading for those who are not trained in its use and who do not have the broader perspective within which to place a particular piece of data that is raw.

People say that it’s easy to lie with statistics. Well it’s a lot easier to lie without them.

Statistics are like blood sausage: they are delicious until you find out how they're made.

If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

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

Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.

It is easy to lie with statistics. It is hard to tell the truth without it.

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

Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future.

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.

The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.

There is a rampant tendency in any industry where someone is trying to sell something with a bunch of data, where they cherry pick a little bit... bias a little bit. This becomes quite easy when there is an enormous amount of data to cherry pick from.

People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.

Evolving technologies that allow economists to gather new types of data and to manipulate millions of data points are just one factor among several that are likely to transform the field in coming years.

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

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.

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.