Statistics Quotes Quotes

“That’s the thing with science. We’re drilled to believe that false positives are bad, but false negatives are just as terrifying.”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“Your relevance as a data custodian is your ability to analyse and interpret it. If you can’t, your replacement is due.”
― Wisdom Kwashie Mensah

“Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics.”
― Steven Magee

“The average human being follows the statistics but the success minded human being changes the face of the statistics.”
― Bernard Osei Annang, Life, The theory of Everything: Succeeding in the 21st century and beyond

“Statisticians are the most dangerous creatures on the face of the planet.”
― Faheem Uddin Syed

“Access is one of those words that should raise red flags when you encounter them in statistics. People having access to health care might simply mean they live near a medical facility, not that the facility would admit them or that they could pay for it. As you learned above, C-SPAN is available in 100 million homes, but that doesn’t mean that 100 million people are watching it. I could claim that 90 percent of the world’s population has “access” to Weaponized Lies by showing that 90 percent of the population is within twenty-five miles of an Internet connection, rail line, road, landing strip, port, or dogsled route.”
― Daniel J. Levitin, A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age

“Collecting data using improper methods can spoil any statistical analysis”
― Mark L. Berenson, Basic Business Statistics Concepts and Applications

“Operational deficiencies are made visible through statistical analysis, and likewise growth opportunities.”
― Wayne Chirisa