Statistically Significant Quotes To Remember

Statistically Significant Quotes

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TO REMEMBER…

“All models are wrong but some are useful.”

-George EP Box(Statistician)

“You can use all the quantitative data you can get but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.”

- Alvin Toffler(Writer and futurist)

“Information is not synonymous with knowledge. Information is only data, parts of the whole.”

- Ruth Nanda Anshen(Philosopher)

“The goal is to transform data into information, and information into insight.”

- Carly Fiorina(Former CEO of Hewlett-Packard)

“To write it, it took three months; to conceive it, three minutes; to collect the data in it, all my life.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald(Author)

“In God we trust, all others must bring data.”

- W. Edwards Deming

(Statistician)

- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

(Physician and writer)

“Data! Data! Data! I can’t make bricks without clay!”

“If you do not know how to ask the right question, you

discover nothing.”

W. Edwards Deming(Statistician)

“If you torture the data long enough, it

will confess.” - Ronald Coase(Economist)

“If the statistics are boring, you’ve got the wrong numbers.”

- Edward Tufte(Professor emeritus, Yale University)

“Facts are stubborn but statistics are more pliable.”

- Mark Twain(Author and humorist)

“Statistics are no substitute for judgment.”

Henry Clay(Politician and orator)

“Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.”

-William W. Watt, Author

“A little uncertainty is good for everyone.”

- Henry Kissinger

(Former Secretary of State)

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