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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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Round numbers are always false. – Samuel Johnson

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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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A statistical analysis, properly conducted, is a delicate dissection of uncertainties, a surgery of suppositions. – M.J. Moroney

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One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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