Like dreams statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
For me unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure or design or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
One death is a tragedy one million is a statistic.
I'm doing everything that I can working with experts really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.
The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show because usually when the computer breaks down once that is the end of it for a long long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.
I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car sew knit cook etc. Statistically there is more I don't do than do.
Statistics suggest that when customers complain business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.