Statisticians Quotes

Our view is that the very best data miners or statisticians can earn as much as the very best golfers or tennis players.

Most students who take math classes aren't going to be mathematicians. They're going to be engineers, statisticians - in many ways, that's the more important mission of math education.

If you tried to turn figures into human form and give a computer flesh and blood you would probably end up with something like Mr. Jay. He is the personification of joylessness, the missing link between man and the machine.

Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A social science.

We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in hand is build a story to explain the facts.

Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.

Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops.