Chance News 93

Quotations

“The magic of statistics cannot create information when there is none.” [p. 133]

“I remember a few years ago looking at peer rankings of graduate departments and being delighted to discover that among statistics departments my own alma mater was in the top ten (although my trust in the process was tempered by the knowledge that, despite its lofty ranking, Princeton’s statistics department had been disbanded decades earlier.)” [p. 141]

Howard Wainer in Uneducated Guesses, 2011

Submitted by Margaret Cibes