Line #35 Quotes/LiesDamnedLiesAndStatistics


1	->''The first way to check data is to check who's sharing it. This sounds unscientific, as we're meant to respect the data instead of being biased by who's presenting it, but it's already been biased by their presentation of it. Science only works when you use the whole thing. You have to consider all the results, [[ConfirmationBias not just the ones that support things you like]]. But pundits Google titles that match what they already believe, then wave quotes out of context to claim the power of SCIENCE. It's like ripping the shiniest part out of a Lamborghini engine and claiming you have the ability to sprint at 300 kilometers per hour.''
2	-->-- '''Website/{{Cracked}}'s [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/8-obvious-signs-statistics-are-lying-to-you/ 8 obvious signs statistics are lying to you]]'''
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4	->''75% percent of people will believe anything that has a statistic in it.''
5	-->-- Old joke
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8	!!Fiction
9	->''"Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism."''
10	-->--'''Creator/AldousHuxley''', ''Time Must Have a Stop'' (1944)
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12	->'''Wrestling/TripleH:''' Sixty six percent, that's almost better than a half chance for a DX victory!\
13	'''Wrestling/ShawnMichaels:''' Seventy percent of statistics are wrong, eighty percent of the time.
14	-->-- '''''[[Wrestling/WWERaw Monday Night Raw]]'''''
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16	->'''Qwark:''' This Lombax is young. He does not understand that being a hero is 45% strength, 60% bravery, and 10% raw intelligence.\
17	'''Ratchet:''' That's 115%!\
18	'''Qwark:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint You're welcome.]]
19	-->-- ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureACrackInTime''
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21	->''"And I'm sure [[ComicBook/TheFlash you]] can account for the fact that since your so-called "Justice" League formed, ''white''-collar crime is up 3%!... On your watch, 50% of all marriages now end in divorce! And the other 50% in DEATH!!"''
22	-->-- '''"Glorious" Gordon Godfrey''', ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''
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24	->''"Numbers don't lie, but humans using numbers lie all the time."''
25	-->-- ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale''
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27	->''"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!"''
28	-->-- '''Homer Simpson''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
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30	->'''Caulfield:''' Benjamin Disraeli said there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.\
31	'''Frazz:''' Nine out of ten people say that was Mark Twain.
32	-->-- ''ComicStrip/{{Frazz}}''
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34	->''"'average person east 3 spiders a year' factoid actually just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in a cave & eats over 10,000 spiders each day, is an outlier adn should not be counted"''
35	-->-- Website/{{Tumblr}} user '''reallyreallyreallytrying'''
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37	!!RealLife
38	->''"If enough data is collected, a board of inquiry can prove anything."''
39	-->-- '''Murphy's Law of Combat #75'''
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41	->''"Nothing is so fallacious as facts, except figures."''
42	-->-- '''George Canning'''
43
44	->''"Polls are for strippers and cross-country skiers."''
45	-->--'''UsefulNotes/SarahPalin'''
46
47	->''"Because this is a meteorological fact I can prove with graphs and lying. It snows EVERY CHRISTMAS DAY. Oh, shut up, what do you know??"''
48	-->-- '''Creator/StevenMoffat''' on the rules of Christmas Movies, ''Magazine/RadioTimes'' issue 18-31 December 2010
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50	->''"Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital."''
51	-->--'''Aaron Levinstein'''
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53	->''"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts, for support rather than for illumination."''
54	-->--'''Andrew Lang'''
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56	->''"I never believe in statistics unless I've forged them myself."''
57	-->--'''UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill'''
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59	->'''Fun statistical fact:''' Cows are about 300 times more likely to kill you than coyotes.\
60	'''Minor sidenote to statistical fact:''' If it was common for people to keep several hundred coyotes on their property and routinely chase them into a corral and handle them, this statistic would be different.
61	-->--'''Tumblr user pervocracy''' [[http://pervocracy.tumblr.com/post/167001641114/fun-statistical-fact-cows-are-about-300-times]]

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