{"quotes":[{"text":"The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["arrogance","arrogant","belief","bias","clan","country","estimate","estimated","estimation","family","funny","funny-but-true","humor","illogical","inferior","inferiority","irrational","logic","mystery","nation","nationalism","patriot","patriotic","patriotism","people","percent","percentage","pride","prideful","sarcasm","sarcastic","stat","statistic","statistics","stats","superior","superiority","true"],"id":1099,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Some of the greatest masterpieces of art are created against the odds of reality.From the book: stuff I think about.","author":"Sondra Faye","tags":["art","creative-process","creativity","masterpiece","masterpieces","odds","reality","sondra-faye","statistics"],"id":5783,"author_id":"Sondra+Faye"},{"text":"J. E. Littlewood, a mathematician at Cambridge University, wrote about the law of truly large numbers in his 1986 book, 'Littlewood's Miscellany.' He said the average person is alert for about eight hours every day, and something happens to the average person about once a second. At this rate, you will experience 1 million events every thirty-five days. This means when you say the chances of something happening are one in a million, it also means about once a month. The monthly miracle is called Littlewood's Law.","author":"David McRaney","tags":["coincidence","delusion","psychology","statistics"],"id":20030,"author_id":"David+McRaney"},{"text":"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.","author":"Mark Twain","tags":["facts","statistics"],"id":21489,"author_id":"Mark+Twain"},{"text":"Statistics is the grammar of science.","author":"Karl Pearson","tags":["statistics","grammar "],"id":22355,"author_id":"Karl+Pearson"},{"text":"Who needs theory when you have so much information? But this is categorically the wrong attitude to take toward forecasting, especially in a field like economics where the data is so noisy.","author":"Nate Silver","tags":["economics","forecasting","statistics"],"id":26993,"author_id":"Nate+Silver"},{"text":"When it is a law abiding common person versus the police internal affairs regarding a corrupt or incompetent police officer, the statistics show that it is the common person that most frequently loses.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["abiding","affairs","common","corrupt","corruption","corruption","frequently","incompetent","internal","law","loses","most","officer","person","police","police-brutality","police-corruption","police-officer","police-reform","police-service","police-state","policeman","policemen","regarding","show","statistics","versus"],"id":26997,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"All statistics have outliers.","author":"Nenia Campbell","tags":["chance","life","outlier","philosophy","probability","statistics"],"id":28933,"author_id":"Nenia+Campbell"},{"text":"99 percent of all statistics only tell 49 percent of the story.","author":"Ron DeLegge II","tags":["economics","mathematics","numbers","statistics"],"id":52252,"author_id":"Ron+DeLegge+II"},{"text":"Marriage counselors in particular all strongly recommend divorcees try to understand their role in a divorce before re-marrying. Statistics show if you re-marry before you've clearly seen things from the biter's point of view - you're re-bounded to fail again!","author":"Karen Salmansohn","tags":["statistics","point of view "],"id":58833,"author_id":"Karen+Salmansohn"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":90,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}