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Statistics Quotes

"Don't cross a river if it is on average four feet deep"

"I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex."

"The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions."

"I want to put on the table not why 85 percent of kids in my country, which is the USA, call themselves religious but why 15 percent don’t. That’s the number that has always shoul fascinate us."

"When you depart from standard probability, you completely lose track of its limits"

"Luck is mere statistical flukes."

"Half the people you know are below average."

"Sanity is not statistical."

"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic."

"The lack of data is a major source of uncertainty, not lack of theory"

"Risk means more things can happen than will happen "

"The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale."

"Half the people you know are below average"

"The fooled-by-randomness effect applies to both the forecasters and those misled by their forecasts"