Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
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He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.
An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.
Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic.
Statistics is the grammar of science.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
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