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The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases.

Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp

The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link.

Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp

A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full.

Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp

You cannot escape the statistical method, so you may as well make friend with it. You think it is cold and inhuman and impersonal, but, as a matter of fact, it is fuller of red blood and human nature than half the descriptive literature in the world.

Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp

Most of you would as soon be told that you are crosseyed or knock-kneed as that you are destined to be a statistician.

Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp

Ask a ferryman or a toll-keeper how many visitors come through daily on an average, and with an appearance of great intellectual discomfort he assures you the number varies so much.

Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp

Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp

Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp

Born: June 21, 1880

Died: April 16, 1941 (aged 60)

Bio: Josiah Charles Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp was an English industrialist, economist, civil servant, statistician, writer, and banker. He was a director of the Bank of England and chairman of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

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