Statistical Evidence Quotes

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

There is no serious statistical evidence in support of the view that tax rates at current levels have a major disincentive effect on economic growth.

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

I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.

All analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities which they want to use and cannot prove.

I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy.

In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?'

Numbers don't lie. You always seem to remember your workouts as being a little better than they were. It's good to go back and review what you do.

There's no statistical evidence that human beings have an ability to move in and out of the markets effectively. It's next to impossible.

These disturbing phenomena [Extra Sensory Perception] seem to deny all our scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming.

I contribute in many different ways to the team. I've played a hell of a lot of games in my career, and you can stake any argument on the stats.

If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.

There are two types of claims: those based on hard numbers and those based on slippery numbers.

There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.

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

When you boil down the real facts and statistics of what carbon dioxide is doing to this planet... to not feel like you have to do something... I don't think you're human.

People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.

Now, I feel that if somebody looks through all the numbers through all those years, they will find one for Julius Rosenberg, and it is worth finding if it is such an important issue.