Historical Data Quotes

No more than 20 percent of the population in 1776 belonged to a church.

A complete assemblage of the smallest facts of human history will tell in the end.

Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.

What happened in the past can help you know what's going to happen in the future. That insight brings a next level of intelligence not just to sales and marketing but to ERP, where you can save more money in procurement or figure out whether the people you recruit are going to be successful in your organization.

Whereas much of what we know from ancient history is derived from one or two sources, we have no fewer than nine ancient sources, inside and outside the New Testament, corroborating the disciples' conviction that they encountered the resurrected Jesus. That's an avalanche of data.

Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.

If you're not thinking about the way systemic bias can be propagated through the criminal justice system or predictive policing, then it's very likely that, if you're designing a system based on historical data, you're going to be perpetuating those biases.

I was interested in variations in temperatures of the oceans over the past millennium. But there are no records of these changes so I had to find proxy measures: coral growth, ice cores and tree rings.

In 1844, there was a balance of perhaps of a couple of thousand dollars on the cr side.

The evidence of history speaks with a single voice. I do not know any exception to the proposition that if you compare like with like, the freer the system, the better off the ordinary poor people have been.

Charts are great for predicting the past.

How can you make sense of the future when you only have data about the past?

One thing I've noticed about history - you can search on newspapers going back hundreds of years, search for 'economic forecast,' you don't find it. It would be very rare to find it.

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

Historians usually record events based on the time and date of when they occurred.

In 1600, Shakespeare's London was a city of 200,000 people. At the same time, there were already over a million in Tokyo.

If you go back in time and look at a map of all of the television markets where wrestling was most popular, historically, the deepest concentrations of those markets were in the northeast.

Data will always bear the marks of its history. That is human history held in those data sets.

There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible.

There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.

The specific experience with which economics and economic statistics are concerned always refers to the past. It is history, and as such does not provide knowledge about a regularity that will manifest itself also in the future.

The best predictor of future events is probably past events.

A good monetary policy follows inflationary expectations and not historical numbers.

The literary data that we have historically is indeed mostly about leaders or important people.