There are two ways of lying. One not telling the truth and the other making up statistics.
I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.
They read their sports pages know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans pro or con over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
I'm a visual thinker really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics all of the weather statistics.
I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating very few survive.