Statistical Truth Quotes

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

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

Women lie, men lie, numbers don't.

If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.

Unlike earlier thinkers, who had sought to improve their accuracy by getting rid of error, Laplace realized that you should try to get more error: aggregate enough flawed data, and you get a glimpse of the truth. "The genius of statistics, as Laplace defined it, was that it did not ignore errors; it quantified them," the writer Louis Menand observed. "...The right answer is, in a sense, a function of the mistakes.

Numbers don't lie. Women lie, men lie, but numbers don't lie.

Remember, half the people you know are below average.

If you say to people that there's less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it's the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan.

I think that could be perhaps a little misleading and even our statistics can mislead people at the times though they are not misleading in themselves. It is just that people get mislead