There are two ways of lying. One not telling the truth and the other making up statistics.
I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.
The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
They read their sports pages know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans pro or con over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.
Statistically and emotionally I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.
Unfortunately Climate Science has become Political Science. It is tragic that some perhaps well-meaning but politically motivated scientists who should know better have whipped up a global frenzy about a phenomena which is statistically questionable at best.
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me I could fit in at least one maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.
Complex statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple statistically probable things.
I'm a visual thinker really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics all of the weather statistics.
This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.
It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage.
It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage.
I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating very few survive.
We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport obviously. And in finance too.
Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics it's about experience it's about participation it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.
Like dreams statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
For me unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure or design or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
One death is a tragedy one million is a statistic.
I'm doing everything that I can working with experts really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.
The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show because usually when the computer breaks down once that is the end of it for a long long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.
I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car sew knit cook etc. Statistically there is more I don't do than do.
Statistics suggest that when customers complain business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.