There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.
I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.
Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
Statistics is the grammar of science.
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.
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.
You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
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