Dawes observed that the complex statistical algorithm adds little or no value. One can do just as well by selecting a set of scores that have some validity for predicting the outcome and adjusting the...

We may at once admit that any inference from the particular to the general must be attended with some degree of uncertainty, but this is not the same as to admit that such inference cannot...

In a world with amazing amounts of statistics and demographics available, If you don’t utilize foresight, statistics, demographics, projections and predictions the competition will.

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

Erika’s statistics speak for her and what she has done at North Texas. She has definitely made her mark.

I was 16 when I entered the foster system, and know firsthand the statistics for ‘aging out.’

One good thing is I don?t give a (crap) about the statistics this week.

We encounter regression to the mean almost every day of our lives. We should try to anticipate it, recognize it, and not be fooled by it.

Out of a hundred people:Those who always know better- 52Doubting every step- all the restGlad to lend a hand if it doesn’t take too long- as high as 49Always good, because they can’t be otherwise-...

Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.

Statistics are somewhat like old medical journals, or like revolvers in newly opened mining districts. Most men rarely use them, and find it troublesome to preserve them so as to have them easy of access;...

This book is an essay in what is derogatorily called “literary economics,” as opposed to mathematical economics, econometrics, or (embracing them both) the “new economic history.” A man does what he can, and in the...

All statistics have outliers.

The figures on Chinese textile imports that we have from Customs and Excise and the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) show no major increase.

Her statistics were more than a study… For her, Quetelet was the hero as scientist, and the presentation copy of his Physique Sociale is annotated by her on every page. Florence Nightingale believed—and in all...