Statistical Quotes

The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.

There`s a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they`d eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn`t true.

There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

Two years later, I went to the University of Minnesota from which I was on leave for several years during the war as a member of Statistical Research Group at Columbia University.

The large number of safety studies indicates that this issue has received a great amount of attention. Unfortunately, many of these studies involve more advocacy than science. It`s not that these studies aren`t valuable, but they have problems with methodology, statistical analysis and even simple understanding of important terms, such as `speeding.` In accident data, speeding is defined as both `traveling faster than the posted limit` and `traveling too fast for conditions.` Studies often do not differentiate between these definitions.

Some people are happy at these schools and some aren`t. We think these things are about general feel, and as much as you try to wrap it up in a statistical guide, you can`t.

The organized charity, scrimped and iced, in the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.

The organized charity, scrimped and iced, in the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.

We wanted to test whether quizzes encouraged greater memory retention over review. We found that the groups had no statistical differences, meaning that quizzes were not a harmful activity. That`s an interesting finding for this pilot study. It suggests that the idea of giving quizzes regularly is worth further exploration and that quizzes might be better used as an effective teaching tool.