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Often statistics are used as a drunken man uses lamp posts... for

Often statistics are used as a drunken man uses lamp posts… for support rather than illumination. – Source Unknown

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He used statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts; for support rather than illumination. – Andrew Lang

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After all, facts are facts, and although we may quote one to another with a chuckle the words of the Wise Statesman, “Lies – damned lies – and statistics,” still there are some easy figures the simplest must understand, and the astutest cannot wriggle out of. – Leonard Courtney, speech, August 1895, New York, "To My Fellow-Disciples at

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Statistics may be defined as “a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.” – W.A. Wallis

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I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live. – Louis D. Brandeis

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