Anyone holding the paradoxical belief that people are more competent to govern each other than they are to make individual choices.
"They either want a war on drugs or a war on guns or a war on speech or a war on business. Stupid statists."
by word_g33k February 16, 2013
statistics is a branch of science which deals with data collection,presentstion,analysis, and drawing conclusion for any problem under study.
by farooqi July 29, 2006
The mathamatical study of the distribution of data on any subject to prove any point you're trying to make, when whining about it doesn't work.
by jt July 14, 2003
by Clinker June 16, 2008
Just because I think that government taxation is somehow different and better than theft doesn't mean I'm a statist!
by Ancap January 12, 2007
The study of percentages, bars, graphs, and charts, all in an attempt to make some sort of logical conclusion out of a bunch of numbers so that even more percentages, bars, graphs, and charts can be made.
by AYB July 29, 2003
Someone, who out of fear, ignorance or a sense of misplaced duty blindly follows the rules of a government without considering whether those rules are fair or just. Giving the state the benefit of the doubt as opposed to the citizens of the state. Unfortunately, most statists will never receive the special treatment from their government that they think they have earned or deserve.
Anyone who believes the official story about anything and uses the word "conspiracy theorist" is probably a statist.
by SeahawksOwnthe49ers April 13, 2014