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A Collection of Statistics-Related Quotes [View Printable]
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mbicking
Group: Member Posts: 26 Joined: Mar 03, 2008
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1. "Data! data! data!", he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." – Sherlock Holmes, "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"
2. Statistics are no substitute for judgement. – Henry Clay
3. A reasonable probability is the only certainty. – E. W. Howe
4. There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. – Mark Twain, Autobiography, attributed to Benjamin Disraeli
5. Imagination is more important than knowledge. – Albert Einstein
6. He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts — for support rather than for illumination. – Andrew Lang
7. Statistics are for losers. – Scotty Bowman
8. Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say. – William W. Watt
9. Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. – Lawrence J. Peter
10. Then there is the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of six inches. – W. I. E. Gates
11. Statistics — figures used as arguments. – Leonard Louis Levinson
12. Figures won't lie, but liars will figure. – Charles H. Grosvenor
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......................... M. K. L. Bicking, Ph.D. ACCTA, Inc.
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| Posted May 15, 2008, 11:52 AM |
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