2007-12-04 05:23:02 · 5 answers · asked by aladinsane 4 in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." ~Mark Twain, autobiography, 1904 (but, as yet no actual record of this under Disraeli's authorship)
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 Gallup
The average human has one breast and one testicle. ~Des McHale
When you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of the meager and unsatisfactory kind. - Lord Kelvin (British physicist)
2007-12-04 05:29:50 · answer #1 · answered by Menehune 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Samuel Clemens once said, "there are lies, damn lies, and statistics!"
Statistics can be manipulated to prove just about anything that you want...it depends on your sampling, your demographics, the questions asked, how the numbers are filtered or slanted. Spin doctors' stock-in-trade is the manipulation of statistics to sway public opinion.
2007-12-04 13:52:24 · answer #2 · answered by pstottmfc 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that.
- Homer Simpson
2007-12-05 21:43:54 · answer #3 · answered by Merlyn 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
8 out of 10 people believe that 9 times out of 10.
2007-12-04 13:27:21 · answer #4 · answered by sydney_22_f 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Maybe even this one eh?
2007-12-04 13:30:24 · answer #5 · answered by mustanger 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋