We were not given any statistics as to how many records were pressed on the blue label. I used to ask Bob Shad how we were going to get paid from record sales and what I got for an answer was not to worry about the business end of the deal.
We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences.
However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.
And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex than the way feminists had portrayed it, as men oppressing women.
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.
Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.
The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.