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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.
There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.
American politics, like most things, is a story of what statisticians describe as the reversion to the mean.
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative. And you may very well make up a wrong story because you only have one fact, which is a statistic.
Obviously, stats are important tools, but I think there's something behind those things; somewhere along the way, you've got to try to look inside someone.
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