Chris Hogan Quotes

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

I'm not too worried about stats and stuff like that.

I'm an analytics girl.

You'll never hear me talk about stats.

I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

We spend our time bandying statistics about.

I think putting numbers together into a coherent framework always seemed to me to be what really matters.

I've got a lot of stats. I did a lot of stuff.

I have never been a stats person.

[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.

Some people hate the very name of statistics, but I find them full of beauty and interest. Whenever they are not brutalized, but delicately handled by the higher methods, and are warily interpreted, their power of dealing with complicated phenomena is extraordinary. They are the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.

Economics in college was very poor; I was not very impressed with it. I actually wanted to study statistics. I discovered mathematical statistics as an undergraduate and was fascinated with it.

One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.

You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics.

I'm a bit of a freak for evidence-based analysis. I strongly believe in data.

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

Math is a language that you use to describe statistics, but really it's about collecting information and putting it in an order that makes sense.

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

Stats are for losers. They relish in them.

I am completely obsessed with numbers and data. I have become a scientist in later life.

The numbers are hard to control.

Stats aren't everything.