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- There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.
- Benjamin Disraeli
- Statistics are like bikinis: what they reveal is suggestive but what they conceal is vital.
- Aaron Levenstein
- Statistics are like lampposts: they are good to lean on but they don’t shed much light.
- Robert Storm-Peterson
- Statisticians are people who work with numbers, but don’t have the personality to be accountants.
- Anonymous
- The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
- Robert R. Coveyou
- Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
- Mark Twain
- If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.
- Albert Einstein
- By all means, let’s not confuse ourselves with the facts.
- Anonymous
- Numbers are like people, torture them enough and they’ll tell you anything.
- Anonymous
- Facts all come with points of view. Facts won’t do what I want them to.
- David Byrne