Quotes in statistics

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

Most people use statistics the way a drunkard uses a lamp post, more for support than illumination.

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read or write.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

statistical methods appropriate for iterative inquiry can help the investigator not only to answer questions originally asked but also to catalyze the posing of new questions. Thus greatly assisting the subject matter specialist's attempt to understand the phenomenon under study.

Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch of mathematics.

Dividing one number by another is mere computation; figuring out what you should divide by what is mathematics.