There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently2, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.
David Letterman (1947 - )
Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
Fletcher Knebel
I could prove God statistically3.
George Gallup (1901 - 1984)
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic1.
Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953)
