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Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.

I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic models.

Math is a language that you use to describe statistics, but really it's about collecting information and putting it in an order that makes sense.