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...