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- Nov 07, 2020
Statistics Quotes
Wry and thoughtful lines on numbers, data, and what they miss.
Several of these lines come from athletes shrugging off statistical talk in favor of team results, alongside a well-known jab likening reliance on statistics to a drinker leaning on a post, propped up rather than genuinely enlightened. Together they question how much numbers really explain. Compare with Data for more on measuring performance.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I honestly don't care about individual awards or statistics.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not always statistics that determine the best player, especially the quarterback.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. that It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are folks out there, especially during the political season, that'll try to twist and turn economic statistics for their own personal benefit, to pick and choose talking points in order to tear Montana's progress down.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Statistics on religious affiliation are notoriously slippery: the government isn't allowed to gather such data, and the membership claims of religious organizations aren't entirely reliable.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I must learn to adapt, or else I'll fall victim to the negative statistics surrounding retired athletes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
From what I can tell, pollsters are generally fairly stick-to-the-facts folks. They deal in facts and statistics.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020