The following is from The Income Team Blog and was gathered by Steven;
The average human has one breast and one testicle. ~Des McHale
Torture numbers, and they’ll confess to anything. ~Gregg Easterbrook in The New Republic
69.8% of all statistics are made up. ~Author Unknown
Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. ~Aaron Levenstein
Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable. ~Bobby Bragan, 1963
Statistics can be made to prove anything - even the truth. ~Author Unknown
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. ~Author Unknown
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. ~Author Unknown
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than for illumination. ~Andrew Lang
Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say. ~William W. Watt
Then there is the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of six inches. ~W.I.E. Gates
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up. ~Rex Stout, Death of a Doxy
I always find that statistics are hard to swallow and impossible to digest. The only one I can ever remember is that if all the people who go to sleep in church were laid end to end they would be a lot more comfortable. ~Mrs. Robert A. Taft
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