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Quotes about Statistics

Every Labour government has left office with higher unemployment than when it entered.
- Esther McVey
we can predict his future only within the large framework of a statistical survey referring to a whole group; the individual personality, however, remains essentially unpredictable
- Viktor E. Frankl
According to a new study, women in satisfying marriages are less likely to develop cardiovascular diseases than unmarried women. So don't worry, lonely women, you'll be dead soon.
- Tina Fey
You know statistics have proven that listening to prohibition lecturers has driven more people to drink than any other cause.
- Will Rogers
We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.
- Oscar Wilde
It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage.
- Alveda King
Any theory based on experience is necessarily statistical; that is to say, it formulates an ideal average which abolishes all exceptions at either end of the scale and replaces them by an abstract mean.
- Carl Jung
For every fatal shooting, there are about 3 non-fatal shootings. Folks, this is unacceptable in America.
- George W. Bush
We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
- Erica Jong
Economic and health statistics, as well as police-violence statistics, shed light on the pressures on American Indian communities and individuals: Indian youths have the highest suicide rate of any United States ethnic group.
- Lydia Millet
You cannot be driven by the polls. The polls change all the time; they're easily manipulated by whoever wants to ask those poll questions; they go up; they go down.
- Dick Cheney
The US has 5 percent of the world's population, and 25 percent of the world's prison population.
- Shane Claiborne