A Quote by Andrew Lang

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.

Andrew Lang

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Drunken Illumination Lamp Man Posts Rather Statistics Support Than Uses

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Andrew Lang
Scottish - Novelist
March 31, 1844 - July 20, 1912

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

Andrew Lang

He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.

Romano Prodi

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

Andrew Lang

If you take from a theory only the conclusions you like and discard the rest, you are using the theory as a drunkard uses a lamp post-for support rather than illumination.

Greg Mankiw

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.

David Ogilvy

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

Vin Scully

I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for illumination.

Alfred E. Perlman

We all have a tendency to use research as a drunkard uses a lamppost – for support, not for illumination.

David Ogilvy

Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the seas may see the shining, and learn their way.

Henry Ward Beecher

Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination

Robert Green Ingersoll

It seems to me that information is the thing which uses matter, uses light, uses spirit, uses whatever it can put its hands on to organize itself into higher and higher levels of self-reflection.

Terence McKenna

It's a really big deal to do a spacewalk. It's much riskier than staying indoors. It's complex. It uses up a lot of the precious resources onboard. It uses up oxygen. It uses up carbon dioxide scrubbers.

Chris Hadfield

What is of man uses manipulation to conform. What is of #God uses implantation to transform.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I think it's fair to say there is a demagogic path that Europeans, South Americans, Asians have pursued, and we know where that leads. It uses xenophobia, it uses paranoia, it uses prejudice, it uses nationalism to really stir people up and to, you know, begin an us-versus-them contrast, which is dangerous and is not something we've had in our politics at a presidential level in America.

Hillary Clinton

Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart.

Jack Ma

The inner master, when confronted with an obstacle, uses it as fuel, like a fire which consumes things that are thrown into it. A small lamp would be snuffed out, but a big fire will engulf what is thrown at it and burn hotter; it consumes the obstacle and uses it to reach a higher level.

Marcus Aurelius

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