Quotes About Statistics

You know what they say about finding a man in Alaska—the odds are good, but the goods are odd.

Any theory based on experience is necessarily statistical; that is to say, it formulates an ideal average which abolishes all exceptions at either end of the scale and replaces them by an abstract mean.

the female to male ratio among the newly born is a constant, with a very slight prevalence of males.

Is?, s?cak nesnelerden so?uk nesnelere mutlak bir yasan?n zorlamas?yla geçmez: Yaln?zca bu yöndeki geçi?i daha yüksek bir olas?l?kla olur. Bunun nedeni iste ?udur: S?cak nesneye ait daha h?zl? bir atomun daha so?uk bir atoma çarpmas? ve enerjisinin biraz?n? b?rakmas? ve bunun tersinin olmamas?, istatistiksel olarak daha yüksek bir olas?l?kt?r.

We usually speak of probability when we do not have all the data.

A study entitled "Abuse of children in foster and residential care" found that "foster children were 7–8 times, and children in residential care 6 times more likely, to be abused than a child in the general population.

In fact, "in twenty states, the percent[age] of blacks incarcerated is at least five times greater than their share of resident population."163

when it came to Missing Persons, Niceville had a stranger abduction rate five times higher than the national average.

For every fatal shooting, there are about 3 non-fatal shootings. Folks, this is unacceptable in America.

There must be at least 500 million rats in the United States; of course, I am speaking only from memory.

My folks refused to have more than four children after reading that every fifth child born in the world is Chinese.

It gives me great strength to know that half the people I meet are below average.

If at first you don't succeed, try two more times so that your result is statistically significant.

Poison's generally a woman's weapon." "Sexist." "Statistics," she countered.

bottom of the list. No one there has a probability over ten percent. I've got a couple who hit low

There are folks out there, especially during the political season, that'll try to twist and turn economic statistics for their own personal benefit, to pick and choose talking points in order to tear Montana's progress down.

Tinder - man, what's that all about? Tinder, where you're just, like, shopping for a human being. Reading the stats like 'Mortal Kombat.' You're like, 'Oh, he's got six arms, and he's only got the two, so I'll probably go with the six arms.' I don't want to do that with human beings.

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.

Typically diagnosed during childhood and adolescent years, juvenile diabetes, also referred to as Type I diabetes, currently affects more than 3 million Americans and more then 13,000 children are diagnosed each year.

While approximately one in every 400 children and adolescents have Type I diabetes; recent Government reports indicate that one in every three children born in 2000 will suffer from obesity, which as noted is a predominant Type II precursor.

There are two types of claims: those based on hard numbers and those based on slippery numbers.

It's hard to say whether the general incidence of school violence of all types is increasing or not.

There are many types of economic data, but the type considered by Rob Engle and myself is know as time series.

Only by studying large numbers of people can we figure out, are astronauts dying at a higher rate of cancer, and what types of cancers, than other people?