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 17, 2013
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statistics is a branch of science which deals with data collection,presentstion,analysis, and drawing conclusion for any problem under study.
science without statistics bears no fruit
statistics without science has no root
by farooqi July 29, 2006
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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.
39% of all statistics are made up.
by jt July 14, 2003
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Someone who supports the political class's special right to subjugate everybody else.
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
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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.
Statistics may not be of practical use in everyday life, unless you own a casino.
by AYB July 30, 2003
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What you become if you die from drunk driving.
The crane operator dropped her payload on the drunk truck driver who is now just a statistic.
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