Inaccurate Data Quotes

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics; they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But what you must never forget is that every one of those figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases.

There is so much unreliable information on the internet and in the media.

You're trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don't know these people, you don't know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts to nothing more than speculation.

The best information from the leading medical and health scientists and experts in the country was dead wrong.

[...] to judge from the Internet postings that people have sent me, probably most of what you learned [about me] was nonsense.

If you're reading IMDB, half of it's made up. You can't trust it or Wikipedia, which is just lies, lies!

Don’t push out figures when facts are going in the opposite direction.

I've been 5-6 since I've been at least 17 or 18. I think somebody made a mistake on the measurements.

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

I haven't read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true.

Sometimes the statistics themselves, the means by which we perceive the economic universe, are unreliable.

Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of birth and burials is impaired; wherefore by laborious conjectures and calculations to deduce the number of people from the births and burials, may be ingenious, but very preposterous.

In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay.

Yes, there is a ton of information on the web, but much of it is egregiously inaccurate, unedited, unattributed and juvenile.

I have spent too long being able to manipulate the answers I want from market research to rely upon its findings any more than I do weather forecasts.

Because of a jury-rigged and outdated system meant to track deaths, the government has trouble determining exactly which Americans are deceased.

The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up.

There's so much more bad information than good information out there - everybody's got something to say and it's usually wrong.