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Statistics Quotes
Statistics Quotes
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up, and the kind you make up.
- Rex Stout
Data is a lot like humans: It is born. Matures. Gets married to other data, divorced. Gets old. One thing that it doesn’t do is die. It has to be killed.
–Arthur Miller
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.
–Benjamin Disraeli
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
- Robert Boynton
If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.
- Lewis Carroll
