Statistics Quotes

"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic." "Don't cross a river if it is on average four feet deep" "Risk means more things can happen than will happen " "When you depart from standard probability, you completely lose track of its limits" "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." "Luck is mere statistical flukes." "Half the people you know are below average." "The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale." "Sanity is not statistical." "The fooled-by-randomness effect applies to both the forecasters and those misled by their forecasts" "The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions."