Theories are just fantasies. And they change.
Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date? Of course they're out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
Medical statistics are a little bit like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.
What is possible and what is not possible is not objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the author and of the reader.
Statistics show 50% of the people use the internet. The rest have sex with real people.
When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
Considering the alternative. . . it's not too bad at all.
If they would only do as he did and publish posthumously we should all be saved a lot of trouble.
I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself
Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.
Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.
Why speculate when you can calculate?
The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it.
To remember simplified pictures is better than to forget accurate figures.
The statistics show that when you've done something for so long, it'll either be, yeah, you're slowing down, or someone's doing it better. But physically, I feel great. More than that, it's mental and spiritual.
The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
Is it in the UK's interests to leave the EU? It depends on your values. The answer can't be read off of GDP statistics under various scenarios or some measures of global influence.
If. . . we choose a group of social phenomena with no antecedent knowledge of the causation or absence of causation among them, then the calculation of correlation coefficients, total or partial, will not advance us a step toward evaluating the importance of the causes at work.