Quotes About Statistics

We don't do body counts.

In baseball, we count everything," Babe said. "Baseball's a math teacher's dream for teaching kids arithmetic. It's numbers and statistics. It's long division and decimals. I

The stock market has predicted nine out of the last five recessions.

Between 1972 and 2001 the wage and salary income of Americans at the 90th percentile of the income distribution rose only 34 percent, or about 1 percent per year. So being in the top 10 percent of the income distribution, like being a college graduate, wasn't a ticket to big income gains. But income at the 99th percentile rose 87 percent; income at the 99.9th percentile rose 181 percent; and income at the 99.99th percentile rose 497 percent. No, that's not a misprint.

Krugman calculation" that 70 percent of the rise in average family income has gone to the top 1 percent of families.

The answer is quite startling: 70 percent of the rise in average family income went to the top 1 percent.

Make sure that people know what type of average you're using. What if someone else uses the term average without specifying the type? That person is probably referring to the mean, but you can't be certain, and a lack of certainty is dangerous when you're talking statistics.

A recent survey concluded that 55.3 million Mexicans can be described as poor or destitute, this in a population of 127 million.

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

A billion people died on the news tonight.

If you're humble before the numbers, the rewards are significant.

There were twenty-five million people in Yemen and at least thirteen million guns—after the United States, it was, per capita the world's most armed nation.

Black people are 23.5 percent less likely to be shot by police, relative to whites. That's according to ex-Harvard scholar Roland Fryer (a black dude, I might add). He investigated racial profiling in his study: "An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force," published July 2017.

More white children live in poverty than any other race. Data from the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) placed America's 13 million poor kids into the following categories: 4.2 million are Caucasian, 4 million are Latino, 3.6 million are African American, and 400,000 are Asian. Another 200,000 are American Indian.

That being said, it's still not racist to observe that half of the homicides in America are committed by and against African Americans.

AARP goes on to say that 75 percent of Americans between the ages of 55 and 64 have less than $30,000 in savings. Seriously, reread that statement.

It was not known precisely how many labor camps there were in North Korea, although the international consensus was six. The fact that they were numbered and those numbers reached at least as high as twenty-two was an indicator of their pervasiveness. At least two hundred thousand North Koreans, or nearly one percent of the entire population, called these labor camps home.

Of course, in men's sports no one ever talks about beauty, or grace, or the body. Men may profess their "love" of sports, but that love must always be cast and enacted in the symbology of war: elimination vs. advance, hierarchy of rank and standing, obsessive stats and technical analysis, tribal and/or nationalist fervor, uniforms, mass noise, banners, chest-thumping, face-painting, etc.

Los cuadros de bajas expuestos en el capítulo titulado «Estadística sangrienta» muestran la falsedad de esta impresión. Sir Douglas Haig no fue bien servido en esta ocasión por su Servicio de Información del Gran Cuartel General196 la tendencia a decirle a un jefe de elevada situación solo las cosas que gusta de oír es una de las explicaciones más corrientes de una dirección

Such stories may predominate in daily life, but when literature starts taking cues from statistics, it seals its own fate.

The death toll had gotten so bad, Mexico would eventually rank second only to Iraq in the number of killed or kidnapped reporters.

Just 2 percent of the world's population and 5 percent of white people in the U.S. have blond hair, but 35 percent of female U.S. senators and 48 percent of female CEOs at S&P 500 companies are

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere possibility of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.