forecasts are extremely difficult. Especially about the future (Niels Bohr )
The only statistics we can trust are those that we ourselves have forged ( Winston Churchill )
While a single person is an incomprehensible tangle, in the aggregate becomes a mathematical certainty. Or so say the statistics ( Arthur Conan Doyle )
In real life there is no middle man (Aldous Huxley )
The average human has one breast and one testicle (Des MCHA - quoted in Darrell Huff, "Lie with Statistics", M & A) ( THIS 'MY FAVORITE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I THINK THE ARGUMENT to quote)
E' always better to be a bit 'improbable ( Oscar Wilde)
not forgetting the famous "there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics", attributed to Benjamin Disraeli.
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