Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics/Quotes
"Aw, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 'Forfty' percent of all people know that."
—Homer Simpson, The Simpsons - "Homer the Vigilante"
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"The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of a million is a statistic."
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"Ever since the formation of the Justice League, half of all marriages have ended in divorce! And the other half in DEATH!!"
—Glorious Godfrey lookalike, Justice League
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75% percent of people will believe anything that has a statistic in it. |
Nothing is so fallacious as facts, except figures.
—George Canning
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Because this is a meteorological fact I can prove with graphs and lying. It snows EVERY CHRISTMAS DAY. Oh, shut up, what do you know??
—Steven Moffat on the rules of Christmas Movies, Radio Times issue 18-31 December 2010
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Consider the following as a rule. Whenever you have nonlinearity, the average doesn’t matter anymore. Hence: —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Where You Cannot Generalize from Knowledge of Parts
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