A statistical analysis, properly conducted, is a delicate dissection of uncertainties, a surgery of suppositions.
-M.J. Moroney
Statistics can be made to prove anything - even the truth.
-Author Unknown
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
-Rex Stout,
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
-Author Unknown
Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.
-Gregg Easterbrook
I always find that statistics are hard to swallow and impossible to digest. The only one I can ever remember is that if all the people who go to sleep in church were laid end to end they would be a lot more comfortable.
-Mrs. Robert A. Taft
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