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Statistician Quotes

Evan Esar quote: "Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits..."
Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either. Evan Esar
Statisticians report that television is watched over six hours a day in the average American household. I don't know any fiction writers who live in average American households. I suspect Louise Erdrich might. Actually I have never seen an average American household. Except on TV. David Foster Wallace
Thomas Pynchon quote: "This spiritualist, this statistician, what are you anyway?"
This spiritualist, this statistician, what are you anyway? Thomas Pynchon
Ernest Rutherford quote: "If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better..."
If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment. Ernest Rutherford
Winwood Reade is good upon the subject," said Holmes. "He remarks that, while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician Arthur Conan Doyle
E. M. Forster quote: "We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable,..."
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. E. M. Forster
The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions to promote the cause of revolution. John T. Flynn
To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. Ronald Fisher
To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of. Ronald Fisher
Rob Lowe quote: "Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective..."
Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census. Rob Lowe
Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.' George Brett
If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children. Anna Quindlen

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