The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statisti….

The purely random sample is the only kind that can be examined with confidence by means of statistical theory, but there is one things wrong with it.….

Don't be a novelist --- be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination..

It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it..

A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's 'big lie'; it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you..

Proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself, a cold will hang on for a week..

A difference is a difference only if it makes a difference..