Quotes About Statistics

The companies that do well are the companies that use math.

Analytics, math, science has gone into a lot of different areas of the NBA.

I listen to things that are popular and try to think about it in a mathematical way.

If everybody who was in the Forbes 400 said they were going to create 10,000 jobs, by my mathematics, that would be 4 million jobs.

Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.

I let my numbers speak for themselves. I really do. I mean, all of these one-cut runners, you put their numbers up against mine, they're not even close.

We'd like to believe that Americans live longer than most other people in the world. Sadly, that is not the case.

Strikers are expected to score, and I have two goals in eight games.

I was, in my first season, second top scorer, which is something people forget.

In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs.

Statistically, the chance of creating a goal is higher within 10 seconds of winning the ball.

There are more dog owners in America than there are conservatives.

Ninety-nine point nine percent of the people that are gun owners are very responsible.

Even the pandemic flu of 1918 only killed one to two percent of the people who were infected.

Warby Parker is a data-driven company.

The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978.

100% of Net-a-porter customers have a man in their lives in some capacity, and 59% are married or living with a partner.

T]he "Law Of Frequency Of Error". . . reigns with serenity and in complete self-effacement amidst the wildest confusion. The huger the mob . . . the more perfect is its sway. It is the supreme law of Unreason. Whenever a large sample of chaotic elements are taken in hand . . . an unsuspected and most beautiful form of regularity proves to have been latent all along.13

In other words, the important statistic is the risk of violent death for each person. To illustrate this point, there were 49 homicides in Denmark in 2012 (population: 5.6 million), so the chance of any particular Dane being murdered that year was less than one in 100,000. But in a typical small-scale society, with a population of, say, 1,000, 49 homicides would translate into one chance in 20 of being murdered. As

It is estimated that one in every 83 Americans4 and one in 166 Britons5 is a diagnosable psychopath.

Northern Kentucky University's criminal sociologist J. Robert Lilly, looked closely at the statistics of wartime rapes committed by American GI's serving in Britain, France and Germany. To everyone's horror, Lilly reported that American liberators raped 14,000 to 17,000 women between 1942 and 1945 in those 3 European countries alone.

And believe it or not, those screaming faces Sarasti used near the end of the book represent a very real form of statistical analysis: Chernoff faces,132 which are more effective than the usual graphs and statistical tables at conveying the essential characteristics of a data set.133

Fifty percent of all medical personnel graduate in the bottom half of their class.

Amount of luck in tournament determines amount of regression to the mean from one year to the next.