RE: Not being a statistic

["Doty, Patrick" <fpdoty@SANDIA.GOV>]

My favorite: If you took all the statisticians on earth and laid them end-to-end, they would still never reach a conclusion.

 

Patrick.

-----Original Message-----
From: RuthWeiner@aol.com [mailto:RuthWeiner@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 8:49 PM
To: fpdoty@SANDIA.GOV; zclayton@YAHOO.COM; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Re: Not being a statistic

As a colleague of mine -- an economist, as it happens -- once said:  "Statistics are like a bikini; they show what you want to show and hide what you want to hide."

Just a little waste of bandwidth

Ruth

Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.
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