"Inside every nonBayesian there is a Bayesian struggling to get out." is a quote by British Bayesian Statistician Dennis V. Lindley (1923- ). The quote is also cited on page 497 of E.T. Jaynes 2003...
"I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five." is a quote by comedian and violinist Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998).
"Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so." is a quote of American Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841 - 1935). The quote is...
This joke can be used in a discussion of how sample size affects the reliability of the sample mean. The joke may be found amongst the extensive Science Jokes resources at...
"In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies." This is a quote by Canadian economist Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944). The quote is found on page 265 of his 1938 book ...
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