Quotes About Statistics

Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics.

Men lie, women lie, numbers dont

Meanwhile, every eighteen seconds a man beats a woman, every three minutes a man rapes a woman, and every day two men will murder women. And that's just in the United States.

Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population.

I contribute in many different ways to the team. I've played a hell of a lot of games in my career, and you can stake any argument on the stats.

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

We talk about how many women were raped last year, not about how many men raped women.

When it comes to finding available men in Minnesota, the odds are good, but the goods are odd.

The average man. The emergence of the concept.

Nationwide about 1 in 7 black men are temporarily or permanently disenfranchised due to felon disenfranchisement laws.

One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.

I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year.

Over 60 percent of the university students in Iran are female. The women in Iran are better educated than men.

A body of 500 men chosen at random from amongst the unemployed.

Anyone in politics would like to have great economic numbers.

The laws have been slowly changing. Right now, statistics show that more than 30 percent of kids send sexual texts to each other. That

Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases.

The French state insists that once someone becomes French by citizenship, his ancestors become, metaphorically speaking, the Gauls, and he is therefore not to be distinguished from any other Frenchman, in statistics or anywhere else. It would take considerable conceptional subtlety as well as empirical knowledge to disentangle the truth and lies of all this.

modern 'scientific' sociology, whose achievement has been to obscure by means of statistical legerdemain the importance of human consciousness

You have likely heard me describe the state of churches in North America. Nearly nine out of ten are either declining, or they are growing more slowly than the communities in which they are located. In simple terms, 90 percent of our churches are losing ground in their respective communities.

Because the exponential distribution is so mathematically convenient, it is tempting to use it even when it is not appropriate.

To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater.

There are about 300,000 neighborhoods in the United States, and more than half of them have at least one millionaire living there. Most millionaires drive American cars. Out of the top 30 or 40 makes and models, Ford is number one, with about 10 percent of the market share.

Eighty-two million households is what Netflix put out watched 'Bridgerton.' And I cannot hold 82 million in my head, because that doesn't fit. It's too big.