“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than illumination”
Andrew Lang
“An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.”
“I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics”
Mark Twain
“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.”
Vin Scully
“A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him”
Thomas Carlyle
“Freddy can't even find one substantiated statistic that supports his claims.”
Kevin Sheekey
