Quotes about Statistics

we can predict his future only within the large framework of a statistical survey referring to a whole group; the individual personality, however, remains essentially unpredictable

According to a new study, women in satisfying marriages are less likely to develop cardiovascular diseases than unmarried women. So don't worry, lonely women, you'll be dead soon.

You know statistics have proven that listening to prohibition lecturers has driven more people to drink than any other cause.

We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.

It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage.

Any theory based on experience is necessarily statistical; that is to say, it formulates an ideal average which abolishes all exceptions at either end of the scale and replaces them by an abstract mean.

For every fatal shooting, there are about 3 non-fatal shootings. Folks, this is unacceptable in America.

We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.

You cannot be driven by the polls. The polls change all the time; they're easily manipulated by whoever wants to ask those poll questions; they go up; they go down.

The US has 5 percent of the world's population, and 25 percent of the world's prison population.

Any time that we move from personal names to abstract labels or graphs or statistics, we are less in touch with reality and diminished in our capacity to deal with what is best and at the center of life. Yet we are encouraged on every side to do just that.

Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.