Quotes about Statistics
If the BJP government, like the Congress party, had asked what were the numbers on the fraction of people under a particular income, would I have not told them the truth? I would have told them exactly. I would have been as willing.
- Abhijit Banerjee
French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries.
- Robert Kiyosaki
We are creating many para-church organizations, and some new studies claim that if we look at the statistics, we will see that Christians are not leaving Christianity as much as they are realigning with groups that live Christian values in the world, instead of just gathering to again hear the readings, recite the creed, and sing songs on Sunday.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
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
If a player digests his own statistical information in his own time, on his own laptop, tablet or whatever, without a coach standing over him, it makes it easier for him. It helps with the pressure. There's a fear factor but spending time at home analysing things can help control it.
- Sam Allardyce
the average American consumes 22 to 30 teaspoons of sugar every single day.
- Rick Warren
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
- Dennis Prager
I listen to things that are popular and try to think about it in a mathematical way.
- Stephen Malkmus
If everybody who was in the Forbes 400 said they were going to create 10,000 jobs, by my mathematics, that would be 4 million jobs.
- William E. Conway, Jr.
Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.
- James Balog
Crime is a subject that needs to be looked at in-depth since the percentage is on the rise.
- Sudha Chandran
In the United States, there is constant news on this topic, but less than 1 percent of priests are guilty of acts of this type. The constant presence of these news items does not correspond to the objectivity of the information nor to the statistical objectivity of the facts.
- Pope Benedict XVI