"The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing."

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Source : Hubert M. Blalock (1972). “Social statistics”, McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

Hubert M. Blalock

#Knowing Quotes #Statistics Quotes #Manipulation Quotes

“I think I've seen the fastest miler ever. His name is Morceli.”
“How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marry right and live right, our relationship will continue, notwithstanding the certainty of death and the passage of time. Men may write love songs and sing them. They may yearn and hope and dream. But all of this will be only a romantic longing unless there is an exercise of authority that transcends the powers of time and death.”
“Then she waited, with parted lips and a saucy challenge in her eyes, to see how her presence -- the drama of being her -- was registering. In the way of such chicks, she seemed convinced of the originality of her provocation.”
“Crimes increase as education, opportunity, and property decrease. Whatever spreads ignorance, poverty and, discontent causes crime.... Criminals have their own responsibility, their own share of guilt, but they are merely the hand.... Whoever interferes with equal rights and equal opportunities is in somereal degree, responsible for the crimes committed in the community.”
“This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the Social Europe which we wish.”
“Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate”
“I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.”
“God's Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything.”

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