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He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts — for su

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

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

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Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. – Author Unknown

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I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, Im not going to deny that you dont now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand. – Ronald Reagan

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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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