Statistics Quotes

So many figures are quoted to prove so many things. Sometimes it depends on what paper you read or what broadcast you listen in on.

While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.

We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry each night. Well that was probably true. They were all on a diet.

Half the people you know are below average.

Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.

Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.

The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.

I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself

Of all the statistics in health, death is the easiest, because you can go out and ask people, "Hey, have you had any children who died, did your siblings have any children who died?" People don't forget that.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.

One out of every five page views in the United States is on Facebook!

The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.

The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.

I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.

Most Americans living below the official poverty line own a car or truck - and government entitlement programs seldom provide cars and trucks. Most people living below the official poverty line also have air conditioning, color television, and a microwave oven - and these too are not usually handed out by government entitlement programs.Cell phones and other electronic devices are by no means unheard of in low-income neighborhoods, where children would supposedly go hungry if there were no school-lunch programs. In reality, low-income people are overweight more often than other Americans.

43.7 per cent of all statistics are made up on the spot.

You have a wonderful organization. I understand you have ten thousand here. And if you count the ones in the various federal prisons, it brings your total membership up to around thirty thousand.

Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.

July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so

There are three kinds of liars: liars, damned liars, and statisticians

One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.

You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal relationship between them, nor does the resulting quotient have any necessary relationship to anything in the real world.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

President-elect [Donald] Trump won 30 of 50 states, more counties since Ronald Reagan.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.