Estatística
# Estatística

A estatística utiliza-se das teorias probabilísticas para explicar a frequência da ocorrência de eventos.
       - use statistics as a drunk man uses lamp-posts — for support rather than for illumination
          - Andrew Lang citado em "Essentials of debate‎" - Página 72, de John Reinder Pelsma - Publicado por Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1937 - 168 páginas
       - Aleister Crowley; Magick without Tears, Ch XXI
       - The Simpsons; Episódio Homer, o Vigilante da 18ª temporada
       - There are three kinds of lies — lies, damnable lies, and statistics
          - Benjamin Disraeli citado em "Hearings‎" - Página 427, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education - 1928
       - While it is easy to lie with statistics, it is even easier to lie without them.
          - Atribuído a Frederick Mosteller em Murray, Charles (2005). "How to Accuse the Other Guy of Lying with Statistics". Statistical Science 20
          - Those who are not accustomed to original inquiry entertain a hatred and horror of statistics. They cannot endure the idea of submitting sacred impressions to cold-blooded verification. But it is the triumph of scientific men to rise superior to such superstitions, to desire tests by which the value of beliefs may be ascertained, and to feel sufficiently masters of themselves to discard contemptuously whatever may be found untrue.
          - Francis Galton, Citado em Modgil, Sohan e Celia Modgil, eds. Arthur Jensen: Consenso e Controvérsia. Vol. 4. Routledge, 1987.
       - When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.
          - Theodore Woodward
       - Statistics is a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.
          - W. Allen Willis e Harry V. Roberts (1956). Estatísticas: Uma Nova Abordagem. The Free Press. pp. 3
       - Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read or write.
          - Atribuído a H. G. Wells por Darrell Huff em How to Lie with Statistics (1954), epígrafe