37 quotes about statistical follow in order of popularity. Be sure to bookmark and share your favorites!

What's the harm of a little mystification? It sure beats boring statistical analyses.

Carl Sagan

There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

Robert A. Heinlein

You write values questions people can agree or disagree to, and then you use some fancy statistical routines to be able to characterize who's in what group.

Brooke Warrick

Our detailed statistical review shows that FBI investigative activities in 2003 generally were in line with its post-September 11 priorities.

Glenn Fine

There does seem to be a statistical advantage, but the practical advantage is still an open question.

Donald Berry

Commitment to the Millennium Development Goals has been a prod to improved statistical collection.

Mary Chamie

Obviously their New Year's resolution is to stay positive, and they seem to be doing that. But given the race is a statistical dead heat, there's no question we'll see the Liberals respond.

Jonathan Rose

There's nothing magical or mysterious about it, but you don't do it to everyone. You use statistical means, less than 1 percent will be audited.

Adil Shamoo

It's the census bureau, so we figured they would respond to statistical information. We've gotten a lot of anecdotal information from the public, and we're trying to document that as much as possible.

James Stover

They will describe success in fantasy sports as being a highly rational, statistics-driven phenomenon, and like in any sort of statistical process, you can't let one good game by one player affect your planning in fantasy sports. So they try not to watch too many games - because they don't want to be influenced by the events on the field.

Don Levy

I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone-the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.

George H. Gallup

It's a job seekers market now. The job growth rate in Lee County for the statistical area was the highest in the state of Florida.

Barbara Hartman

There's a danger inherent in adopting rules that sound good but have no statistical basis or significance.

David Anthony

I took all that data, fed it into a statistical model, turned the crank and out pops a prediction.

Iain Pardoe

Our goal is to get this 100 percent right. There's no way to do that with statistical sampling.

Scott Haywood

You have to be alarmed at the idea that the government can come in and say, 'I want you to give me your statistical data.' This could be the first step on the way for asking for the content of the e-mails.

Shayana Kadidal

Even though the practice made sense from a statistical standpoint and mathematical standpoint, there just wasn't a comfort level with points being taken away or added to the system.

Bob Burda

After querying designers and compiling our statistical analysis, we know what direction people are leaning in this season. And with retailers more and more in tune to what their customers need, there is a deliberate attempt to get certain colors into stores.

Leatrice Eiseman

He led us in every statistical category. Honestly, as a junior he was the best player on the team, but he took a back seat to two other kids; he understood that his time was going to come as a basketball player and as a leader.

Anthony Nicodemo

This statistical manipulation of the vote amounts to a prize to those who advocate violence.

Leslie Manigat

It's just a statistical correction after the very strong months before. The long-term upward trend is very strong.

Dirk Schumacher

I expect growth to be fastest in the Morgantown metropolitan statistical area.

George Hammond

We had smaller expectations, some statistical goals for defense, we wanted to win conference, but overall, the one thing was we wanted to get to state. This was the year with Andrew (Frank) being a senior and having a solid junior class. It's great that we made it this far.

Brian Lecheler

This is really a very positive surprise but unfortunately it has nothing to do with the economy. It's only a statistical effect because many people who used to be registered as unemployed are no longer included in the numbers.

Ralph Solveen

The organized charity, scrimped and iced, in the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.

John Boyle O'reilly

It was not a statistical analysis of what actually happens on the highway. It was a survey of officers asking them if they discriminated based on race. It was a study that already knew what answer it would come up with.

Kent Willis

Both of them know their all-star years and their big statistical years are behind them and maybe they wanted to let things come to an end.

Terry Crowley

It hasn't changed that much. You can look county by county and see the statistical variation, one has a downward trend and one has an upward trend, that tells me it's random.

Steve Carrellas

I think that their contributions to Cornell lacrosse go beyond any statistical analysis or data that you can put in the paper or attempt to articulate. One of the goals of every senior class is to leave Cornell better than when they found it and this year's senior class has done so tenfold.

Jeff Tambroni

I expect the fastest grown to be in the Morgantown metropolitan statistical area.

George Hammond

Sanity is not statistical.

George Orwell

The only solution that seemed to offer an ongoing solution to the problem was joining the three libraries together. If we were one library with three buildings, in the statistical sense this would make us eligible for more funding.

Bruce Egli

There's not a lot of statistical information. We're getting to that point.

Lynette Willie

Individual investors have to separate the statistical noise of week to week numbers and focus on the big picture.

Alan Skrainka

Some people are happy at these schools and some aren't. We think these things are about general feel, and as much as you try to wrap it up in a statistical guide, you can't.

Chris Mason

Thirty is widely considered to be the minimum number that can be used to ensure statistical reliability from year to year.

Alan Ray

Just a statistical anomaly and probably drew attention only because the media is focused on it at the moment.

Eliot Brenner