A Quote by Vin Scully

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

Vin Scully

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Vin Scully
American - Celebrity
Born: November 29, 1927

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

Romano Prodi

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

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

Andrew Lang

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

David Ogilvy

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

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

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

Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.

Noam Chomsky

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Dean Koontz

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

Marilyn vos Savant

I was walking downtown and the drunk tank stopped and picked me up... I was like, 'Wait a minute here fellas, there's a misunderstanding. I'm not drunk. I have cerebral palsy.' They were like, 'That's a pretty big word for a drunk.'

Josh Blue

If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination.

Harold Brodkey

I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.