Top 141 Statistics Quotes

If we are to appropriate money for roads, we need statistics on how bad our roads really are and, moreover, where more roads will be beneficial – it would be irresponsible to just build them where our gut tells us to.

Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay.

Voting statistics for younger voters is pathetic.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

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

Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!

When you boil down the real facts and statistics of what carbon dioxide is doing to this planet… to not feel like you have to do something… I don’t think you’re human.

People in Midland are real nice folks: I can’t prove that with statistics, but I know West Texas, and it’s just a fact.

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 never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.

My ultimate goal, really, is to win a championship. That’s my ultimate goal no matter the statistics or how I do it or what numbers I put up in the box score.

I’ve said many times that I’m not one of those people who check statistics, follows history, and says, ‘If I do this, what will happen.’

There are some scary statistics out there: one in five kids aged 10-17 have received a sexual solicitation or approach via the Internet.

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.

Everywhere you turn, there are lists and statistics. Any business, any sport, any hobby – we will try to categorize who is the best at some component of that endeavor. It’s part human nature and part technology, since we have been conditioned to have access to answers and trivial problems at our fingertips.

You can be a great defensive player, and if you don’t put up splash statistics, then you’re not going to get noticed.

Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.

I’ve taught statistics, math courses and what I’ve found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you’ll have one group of kids doing well.

Railing at scientists for massaging tree-ring statistics won’t stop the globe from warming if the globe is actually, you know, warming.

My mother was an economics professor. I’m proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

Obviously it’s a statistics game.

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

Sometimes when you come in a team where there are a lot of big names – how can I say this? – the name plays more than the statistics.

Since ‘Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights’ came out, I’ve done a fair amount of public speaking, and the two statistics that always make the audience sit up are that nearly one in three women will have had at least one abortion by menopause and 61 percent of women who have abortions are already mothers.

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

Ultimately, your economy has to be measured in the real eyes of real people, not simply in statistics that appear in newspapers about the unemployment rate and so forth.

Big companies are often in the process of laying off workers. Small startup companies are the ones that are hiring. The statistics prove that’s where job growth is going to occur.

Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.

Marriage counselors in particular all strongly recommend divorcees try to understand their role in a divorce before re-marrying. Statistics show if you re-marry before you’ve clearly seen things from the biter’s point of view – you’re re-bounded to fail again!

Despite great advances in women’s rights, statistics show that when it comes to the balance of power between the sexes, equality is far from being a global reality.

The world view of the underdog socialist is encapsulated in the notion that the establishment has mastered the game of reason, judgment and statistics, leaving the left with emotion. Its heart is in the right place.

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

If you look at my career statistics, it’s not pretty.

The statistics for investing in small businesses are such that the vast majority fail.

There has been this – and it’s reflected in the broadcasts – this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic.

Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics.

I like – I love calculus. I love linear algebra, probability and statistics, that kind of stuff. I just really like that.

I really find comfort in watching film and obtaining knowledge and I use statistics and computer generated stuff to help me get those stats. That was probably a result of my father’s influence on me at a young age.

Political linguists have argued that the right often uses stories to make an argument, while the left falls back on facts and statistics.

The Wonderful pistachios campaign is a great example – I don’t involve myself with a project I don’t feel passionate about. I could talk your ear off about internal statistics for WWE and what we have planned for the future. Why do I know that stuff? Because I like to do all that stuff.

In many college classes, laptops depict split screens – notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN.com, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.

I don’t get bothered about statistics. If somebody had pointed out to me the odds of my being a working actress getting paid for what she does, I probably would have quit early in the game.

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.

It’s great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with a dog-eared, text-heavy paperback, immersed in the statistics of crime and punishment and lunacy, completely alone with the narrative of human depravity.

I must learn to adapt, or else I’ll fall victim to the negative statistics surrounding retired athletes.

But for me, true art can’t be created by accident. There are boundaries to the reach of algorithms. Limits to what can be quantified. Among all of the staggeringly impressive, mindboggling things that data and statistics can tell me, how it feels to be human isn’t one of them.

Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.

I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic models.

Successive governments in the U.K. have worked to create a more flexible labour market, which also meant labour insecurity. They allowed wages to drop and non-wage benefits to shrivel, creating worse inequality than statistics reveal.

I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John’s, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sweden. They read the textbook twice, or three times or four times.

I’m a mathematician. I can trade in facts about false positives and absolute truths about accuracy and statistics with complete confidence.

Math is a language that you use to describe statistics, but really it’s about collecting information and putting it in an order that makes sense.

It’s not always statistics that determine the best player, especially the quarterback.

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.

I think of ‘data science’ as a flag that was planted at the intersection of several different disciplines that have not always existed in the same place. Statistics, computer science, domain expertise, and what I usually call ‘hacking,’ though I don’t mean the ‘evil’ kind of hacking.