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The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units. -- Claude Bernard
The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used. -- Stanley Smith Stevens
He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination. -- Romano Prodi
Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination. -- Vin Scully
Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument. -- Marilyn vos Savant
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination. -- Andrew Lang
An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination. -- Andrew Lang
Math is a language that you use to describe statistics, but really it's about collecting information and putting it in an order that makes sense. -- Lauren Stamile
There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic. -- Michael Lewis
I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic models. -- Lars Peter Hansen
We were not given any statistics as to how many records were pressed on the blue label. I used to ask Bob Shad how we were going to get paid from record sales and what I got for an answer was not to worry about the business end of the deal. -- Phil Harris
I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John's, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sweden. They read the textbook twice, or three times or four times. -- Hans Rosling
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. -- Evan Esar

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