Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.

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Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

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There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.

quote by Ian Hart
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Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

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Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.

quote by Hannah Arendt
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The Statistician

The statistician
tracks our life
with his parabolic curve
our nose bleeding highs
to free falling low
life as a graph
tabulated as a statistic
marriage divorce birth death.

poem by Vince Gullaci
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He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts -- for support rather than for illumination.

quote by Andrew Lang
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He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.

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And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of kept on marching through, no matter what people threw at him.

quote by Mary Stuart Masterson
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Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.

quote by Ernie Banks
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And given that there's been probably a ten-fold amount of information about terrorism through the media than there has about climate change; I think that's quite an interesting statistic.

quote by Peter Garrett
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Happy Fourth of July America!

Wanna' know how many lil' kids
Go to bed hungry in the U.SA
Each night?

If I said "over a million"
Would you sleep any
less sound tonight?

And how many of you
Would agree with me
That being a kid can be rough?

Well…over six million American kids
Get either very little food…each day
Or simply not enough.

Feelin' uncomfortable yet? I hope so! ! !
Think about it, when you're chowin' down
This bountiful 4th of July

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poem by David Whalen
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I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.

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I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that.

quote by Mike Schmidt
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Popularity

How dose one measure
Popularity
Is it the stats that say?
You get hits everyday
Or the comments you read
About your poetry

How do they know?
Your popularity
How dose one fathom
What people think

I sit here and ponder
Can this be real?
I'm classed as a poet
My dream JUST became real

poem by Kaila George
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Statistics The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

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Vital statistics

Vital statistics
It is in city
The city stands
On the sea
The sea in the sky and
The sky in me
Alive alive alive.

poem by Gajanan Mishra
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Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

quote by Hilaire Belloc
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An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

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