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==Forsooth==
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When did they start doing data factoids?
<blockquote>'''12%''': The percentage higher for searches of the word "guacamole" in Wisconsin than in Pennsylvania.<br>
'''5%''':  The percentage higher for "baba ganoush" searches in Pennsylvania than in Wisconsin.
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<div align=right>in &quot;The Count,&quot; ''Wall Street Journal'', 4 February 2011, p. D3
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Revision as of 14:14, 6 February 2011

Quotations

"Regression, it seems has a particular ability to reduce otherwise emotionally healthy adults to an infantile state, blubbing hysterically and looking for someone's hand to hold. My guess is that this suits most statisticians just fine--a textbook on regression might look like a bunch of formulas to you; to statisticians like me, it 450 pages of job security."

Andrew Vickers, in What is a p-value anyway?

(Addison-Wesley, 2009), p. 78

"It is an odd feeling when you love what you do and everyone else seems to hate it. I get to peer into lists of numbers and tease out knowledge that can help people live longer, healthier lives. But if I tell friends I get a kick out of statistics, they inch away as if I have a communicable disease."

Vickers, p. ix

Submitted by Paul Alper

Forsooth

When did they start doing data factoids?

12%: The percentage higher for searches of the word "guacamole" in Wisconsin than in Pennsylvania.

5%: The percentage higher for "baba ganoush" searches in Pennsylvania than in Wisconsin.

in "The Count," Wall Street Journal, 4 February 2011, p. D3

Submitted by Paul Alper

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