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“Statistics cannot be any smarter than the people who use them. And in some cases, they can make smart people do dumb things.”
― Charles Wheelan, Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data

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“Skepticism is always a good first response.”
― Charles Wheelan, Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data

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“Longitudinal data sets are the research equivalent of a Ferrari. Not surprisingly, we can't always have the Ferrari. The research equivalent of a Toyota is a cross-sectional data set.”
― Charles Wheelan, Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data

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“Ich glaube, ich habe Muskelkater im Kopf.”
― Sebastian Schlösser, Lieber Matz, Dein Papa hat 'ne Meise

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“The beauty of the normal distribution - its Michael Jordan power, finesse, and elegance - comes from the fact that we know by definition exactly what proportion of the observations in a normal distribution lie within one standard deviation of the mean (68.2 percent), within two standard deviations of the mean (95.4 percent), within three standard deviations of the mean (99.7 percent), and so on.”
― Charles Wheelan, Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data

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