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There's a valid point to this quote, about the problem of using statistics and other data to support a bottom line. But that's not to say that "stats" themselves are stupid, and I suspect that's why this is being downvoted.
Probably. I heard his routine for the first time this week, and he about lost me when he talked bad about statistics, but then won me over when he explained how a little knowledge makes us stupider, and his problem is with how stats are misused. I figured people'd read more than the first line before voting. C'est la vie.