Trying to analyze a situation without enough data was like looking at a photograph of a ball in flight and trying to gauge its direction. Is it going up, down, sideways? Is it about to collide with a baseball bat? Is it moving at all, or is something on the blind side holding it in place? A single frame didn't mean a thing. Patterns were based on data. With enough datapoints, you could predict just about anything. . Marcus Sakey
Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.
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Scott Dikkers
A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
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Banksy
I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
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Richard Feynman
All statistics have outliers.
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Nenia Campbell
There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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