Quotes on Statistician

Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A social science.

The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.

...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.

According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.

Statistics is the grammar of science.

The subjectivist states his judgements, whereas the objectivist sweeps them under the carpet by calling assumptions knowledge, and he basks in the glorious objectivity of science.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

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.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.