Robert Hooke (mathematician) Quotes

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If you're trying to establish cause-and-effect relationships, do try to do so with a properly designed experiment.

Robert Hooke
If you can't have an experiment, do the best you can with whatever data you can gather, but do be very skeptical of historical data and subject them to all the logical tests you can think of.

Robert Hooke
On the average, bunting with a man on first loses a lot of runs. On the average, it doesn't increase the probability of scoring at least one run in the inning.

Robert Hooke
It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon.

Robert Hooke
Do remember that your personal experience is merely a hodgepodge of statistics, consisting of those cases that you happen to remember. Because these are necessarily small in number and because your memory may be biased toward one result or another, your experience may be far less dependable than a good set of statistics.

Robert Hooke
Don't waste time arguing about the merits or demerits of something if you can gather some statistics that will answer the question realistically.

Robert Hooke
Almost everyone has heard that "figures don't lie, but liars can figure." We need statistics, but liars give them a bad name, so to be able to tell the liars from the statisticians is crucial.

Robert Hooke