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As we get ready to begin the 2011-2012 school year, I just wanted to welcome you to AP Statistics. This website will be updated throughout the year with notes, assignment, the school's upcoming events and other information.
Here are a few amusing quotes about statistics to keep you smiling as the year progresses (if you email me others, I'll add them):
1. Lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math.
2. Statistics are no substiture for judgement. (Henry Clay)
3. Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything. (Gregg Easterbrook)
4. Statistics means never having to say you're certain.
5. Statistics is the science of producing unreliable facts from reliable data.
6. If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them. (Lewis Carroll)
7. Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say. (William W. Watt)
8. Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument. (Marilyn vos Savant) |
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