statistically significant quotes to remember
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“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)
- 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 the statistics are boring, you’ve got the wrong numbers.”
- Edward Tufte(Professor emeritus, Yale University)
“Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.”
-William W. Watt, Author