A Quote by Romano Prodi

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

Romano Prodi

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Drunk Illumination Lamp Like More Posts Statistics Support Than Uses

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Romano Prodi
Italian - Statesman
Born: August 9, 1939

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

Andrew Lang

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

Andrew Lang

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

Andrew Lang

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

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

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

David Ogilvy

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

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

The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture.

Bill Mollison

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.