Statistics say that a range of mental disorders affects more than one in four Americans in any given year. That means millions of Americans are totally batshit.but having perused the various tests available that they...

Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]

Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country where so many desire status and wealth, petty annoyances can spark disproportionately violent behaviour. We become frustrated because...

He who says that someone isn’t himself is a victim of statistics.

Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that...

If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we’d be terrified.

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts – for support rather than for illumination.

It’s taken a while but the market is now moving on the statistics. We tried to take it up when they first came out but failed, which made folks a little gun shy. Concern about...

Normal statistics are like photographs. They can tell us only that X percentage have a problem. They can’t tell us whether those problems are short term or long term, … HILDA enables us to get...

I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.

Abstain from reading comedy or other government economic statistics.

I couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys–but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts – for support rather than for illumination.

You end up with a machine which knows that by its mildest estimate it must have terrible enemies all around and within it, but it can’t find them. It therefore deduces that they are well-concealed...

All the statistics in the world can’t measure the warmth of a smile.

Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God.

This year’s statistics show a more active than average hurricane season.

The only things that really keep me going are statistics.

Obviously statistics will be kept and you want to get closer to perfect. But when it comes down to it, a quarterback is graded upon winning, and that’s the area I’m looking to improve the...

Another mistaken notion connected with the law of large numbers is the idea that an event is more or less likely to occur because it has or has not happened recently. The idea that the...

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

I don’t believe in statistics.

J. E. Littlewood, a mathematician at Cambridge University, wrote about the law of truly large numbers in his 1986 book, “Littlewood’s Miscellany.” He said the average person is alert for about eight hours every day,...

Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.

I’m not interested in Donnie Edwards’ seven-year tackling statistics. I’m only interested in the type of player he is (currently) and the player he may be in the future.

I have stressed this distinction because it is an important one. It defines the fundamental difference between probability and statistics: the former concerns predictions based on fixed probabilities; the latter concerns the inference of those...

Statistics tell us that when you have 10 medical incidents ? then you’re going to have a lost-time accident. We’re up to 13 or 14 medical incidents, so we’re overdue for a lost-time accident, according...

Information or allegations reflecting negatively on individuals or groups seen less sympathetically by the intelligentsia pass rapidly into the public domain with little scrutiny and much publicity. Two of the biggest proven hoaxes of our...

He could not believe that any of them might actually hit somebody. If one did, what a nowhere way to go: killed by accident; slain not as an individual but by sheer statistical probability, by...

I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I’m not going to deny that you don’t now and then slip up on something;...

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason – because some people like them. It’s the same with baseball statistics.

Outside of the killings, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

To clarify, *add* data.

99 percent of all statistics only tell 49 percent of the story.

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

If the universe was scientific and just left to itself, then we’d have statistical probabilities to rely on. But once people are involved it sometimes becomes much more problematic because they’re erratic. People do crazy...

A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

If the statistics are boring, then you’ve got the wrong numbers.

…that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable.

The only meaningful statistic in warfare is when the other side quits.

If you look at statistics every week, there’s a drop in demand year-on-year. People are focusing on that.

There are three types of lies — lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Trying to analyze a situation without enough data was like looking at a photograph of a ball in flight and trying to gauge its direction. Is it going up, down, sideways? Is it about to...

Of course, if 40% of women need oxytocin to progress normally, then something is wrong with the definition of normal.

I saw an all-star and a guy who doesn’t care about statistics. I’m slowly maturing as a player and a person. I still learning more every day.

The picture is not nearly as bleak as the statistics may portray. They virtually all get one inspection a year.

Statistics have shown demand was reduced on a year-on-year basis in September and October. Traders are concerned that they may end up seeing slower demand again in November.

Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.

Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through...