If you’re a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis.

Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters – the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn’t that unbelievable? That’s 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.

I don’t pay a lot of attention to polls.

As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

Facebook is uniquely positioned to answer questions that people have, like, what sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York lately and liked? These are queries you could potentially do with Facebook that you couldn’t do with anything else, we just have to do it.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Those who cry out that the government should ‚do something‘ never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

We’re going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

There’s strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

We polled Tesla owners, do you want autopilot disabled or not. Not one person wanted it disabled. That’s pretty telling.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.