Statistic Love Mugs

Wishful Thinking Magazine - circulation chart.

"I was hoping this presentation would be more interesting upside down."

Fear/Knowledge

'According to our statistics department, 78.93 of the statistics they produce are worthless.'

"Right about here there was a flattening of the curve. . ."

Can't Do the Math/Won't Do the Math.

Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies: The Science of Love

'How can we believe anything when we can disprove everything?'

'No, it's not really good - that's our lawsuits-to-earnings ratio.'

'Now, keep in mind that these numbers are only as accurate as the fictitious data, ludicrous assumptions and wishful thinking they're based upon!'

"If i were to kiss you then there is a 17% probability that we might get married and that has a 24% likelihood that we'd have children with a 34% change of divorce...I'm not sure I can risk it."

'I've been called some mean things as a baby boomer, but 'Pig in the Python' really hurts.'

'Why can't you tell me you love me without all the charts and graphs?!'

"Right, before we look at the covid figures for today, do we need another sheet of paper?"

"Peterson proposes we move out of the mountains."

"If x is the set of all men that love you, then I am a member of x."

'Kroft, Kroft, Kroft...to thine own demographic be true!'

"Your assumption that a one in a million chance event MUST be a miracle shows you drastically underestimate the total number of regularly occurring events."

"I'm going to bombard you with graphs until you agree with me."

"Good invisible exports figures this quarter, sir."

"Let's get married, Miss Harris, and have 2.8 children!"

'There are lies, damn lies, and statistics. We're looking for someone who can make all three of these work for us.'

He then drew a number of smaller pie charts behind the bigger chart. That helped to put it into perspective.

Granny with balanced pie chart

John Venn Speaks...' Just don't include me in an of those diagrams, if you don't mind.'

Gloat

"I actually saw ten gay characters on television this week—which almost balanced out the 2,174 straight characters I saw."

"Six out of ten statisticians prefer to be in the majority."

'Can't he ever use a different kind of chart?'

"Thank you, Harris - I get the picture."

"I never dreamed I'd ever enjoy watching my figure this much."

But under a different accounting convention ...