Statistician Quotes
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The median isn't the message.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it's created. It really hates success.
— Barbra Streisand
Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon.
— Robert Hooke
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
— Evan Esar
The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.
— John Tukey
We would not even need a statistician; a second-rate engineer would do.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.
— Nate Silver
Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.
— Robert Smithson
This spiritualist, this statistician, what are you anyway?
— Thomas Pynchon
The statistician cannot evade the responsibility for understanding the process he applies or recommends.
— Ronald Fisher
Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
— Lillian Hellman
We must keep in mind the story of the statistician who drowned while trying to wade across a river with an average depth of four feet.
— Neil Postman
If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment.
— Ernest Rutherford
The way we look at it, everything is a sound.
— Lester Bowie
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
— Margaret Drabble
The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.
— W. Edwards Deming
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
— E. M. Forster
The median is not the message,
— Stephen Jay Gould
Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.
— Bradley Efron
If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.
— Ernest Rutherford
The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.
— Tom Rath
Expectations have no effect on the harvest.
— Marty Rubin