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A new government 10 year survey cost $3,000,000,000 revealed that 3/4 of the people in America make up 75% of the population.
According to recent surveys, 51% of the people are in the majority.
Did you know that 87.166253% of all statistics claim a precision of results that is not justified by the method employed?
80% of all statistics quoted to prove a point are made up on the spot.
According to a recent survey, 33 of the people say they participate in surveys.
Q: What do you call a statistician on drugs?
A: A high flyer.
Q: How many statisticians does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: 1-3, alpha = .05
There is no truth to the allegation that statisticians are mean. They are just your standard normal deviates.
Q: Did you hear about the statistician who invented a device to measure the weight of trees?
A: It's referred to as the log scale.
Q: Did you hear about the statistician who took the Dale Carnegie course?
A: He improved his confidence from .95 to .99.
Q: Why don't statisticians like to model new clothes?
A: Lack of fit.
Q: Did you hear about the statistician who was thrown in jail?
A: He now has zero degrees of freedom.
Statisticians must stay away from children's toys because they regress so easily.
The only time a pie chart is appropriate is at a baker's convention.
Never show a bar chart at an AA meeting.
Old statisticians never die, they just undergo a transformation.
Q: How do you tell one bathroom full of statisticians from another?
A: Check the p-value.
Q: Did you hear about the statistician who made a career change and became an surgeon specializing in ob/gyn?
A: His specialty was histerectograms.
The most important statistic for car manufacturers is autocorrelation.
Some statisticians don't drink because they are t-test totalers. Others drink the hard stuff as evidenced by the proliferation of box-and-whiskey plots.
Underwater ship builders are concerned with sub-optimization.
The Lipton Company is big on statistics--especially t-tests.
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