Reason, Or The Ratio Of All We Have Already Known, Is Not The Same That It Shall Be When We Know More.
We Should Not Be Pushing Out Figured When The Facts Are In The Opposite Direction.
The First Requirement In Using Statistics Is That The Facts Treated Shall Be Reduced To Comparable Units.
In The Patient Who Succumbed, The Cause Of Death Was Evidently Something Which Was Not Found In The Patient Who Recovered; This Something We Must Determine, And Then We Can Act On The Phenomena Or Recognize And Foresee Them Accurately. But Not By Statistics Shall We Succeed In This; Never Have Statistics Taught Anything, And Never Can They Teach Anything About The Nature Of The Phenomenon.
Have You Ever Thought, Headmaster, That Your Standards Might Perhaps Be A Little Out Of Date? Of Course They're Out Of Date. Standards Are Always Out Of Date. That Is What Makes Them Standards.
Before The Curse Of Statistics Fell Upon Mankind We Lived A Happy, Innocent Life, Full Of Merriment And Go And Informed By Fairly Good Judgment.
In Mathematics I Can Report No Deficiency, Except It Be That Men Do Not Sufficiently Understand The Excellent Use Of Pure Mathematics.
The Ill And Unfit Choice Of Words Wonderfully Obstructs The Understanding.
The Only Way To Avoid All Frightening Choices Is To Leave Society And Become A Hermit, And That Is A Frightening Choice.
