Quotes About Statistics

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise. We are alive against the stupendous odds of genetics, infinitely outnumbered by all the alternates who might, except for luck, be in our places.

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.

In humans, about 1 in 100 live-born infants has some congenital heart malformation, while in utero, heart malformation leading to death of the embryo occurs in between 5 and 10% of conceptions.

Friends could last a lifetime. The statistics were better than for relationships.

In the United States, more than three women are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends every day. Every nine seconds in the United States a woman is assaulted or beaten. Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women—more than that caused by car accidents, muggings, and rapes combined.

He didn't tell them how Britain's national suicide rate dropped by a third when coal gas was phased out, because once people no longer had the option to impulsively stick their head in the oven, there was time for their dark and dreadful impulses to pass.

At one point in the book, Susi says that, in Australia, one woman dies every week because of domestic violence. In the United States, more than three women are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends every day. Every nine seconds in the United States a woman is assaulted or beaten. Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women—more than that caused by car accidents, muggings, and rapes combined.

Statistics: A group of numbers looking for a fight.

2011, writing in the Yale Alumni Magazine, Ron Howell, Murphy's classmate, noted that forty-one years after their graduation, nine of thirty-two Black men who entered Yale in 1966 were dead, a death rate three times higher than that of the class as a whole. Williams offered a sliver of hope and a broad set of suggestions to attack the problem. Even as he spoke of that sliver, I couldn't shake the thought

College-educated Black mothers, for example, are more likely to die, almost die, or lose their babies than white mothers who haven't finished high school.

It is astonishing that, under the circumstances, marriage is still legally allowed. If nearly half of anything else ended so disastrously, the government would surely ban it immediately. If half the tacos served in restaurants caused dysentery, if half the people learning karate broke their palms, if only 6 percent of people who went on roller coaster rides damaged their middle ears, the public would be clamoring for action. Yet the most intimate of disasters . . . happens over and over again.

Only 3 percent of the population of the world has green eyes. Her mother had always told her that in an effort to make her feel special.

Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human races.

As mathematics had been my best subject at school, my parents proposed - and I accepted - studies at the University of Lund in mathematics, statistics, and economics. The choice of the latter subject is said to be due to the fact that at the age of five years, I was very fond of calculating the cost of the various cakes my mother used to bake.

The vast majority of gun owners don't kill, but people who do kill, tend to kill with guns, and often with illegal guns.

The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.

The statistics for investing in small businesses are such that the vast majority fail.

Guys that are striking out 200 times, like Joey Gallo - in 1990 he would have hit 75 home runs every year because he's facing guys with an average velocity of 90 miles an hour, good command and O.K. breaking balls.

In baseball, you can do something poorly and still get credit. A pitcher could throw a bad ball, the batter hit a screaming line drive, and an outfielder make a fantastic diving catch. Yet, when you look at historical databases, 80% of the time when a ball is struck with that trajectory and velocity, it is a hit.

It's tough to make it as an actor, tougher still to make it as an actress - the Screen Actors Guild is eager to provide the statistics to verify the latter.

I always thought that if those psychic phone lines were for real, I could just call them and not say a word and the psychic on the other end of the phone would rattle off my vital statistics, then tell me all about my future.

In 1960 there were fewer than a million Asians in America, less than half of whom were foreign-born. By 1970, five years after Hart-Celler, the Asian American population had grown to 1.5 million, 55 percent foreign-born—and by 1980, it had more than doubled to 3.5 million, 71 percent of whom were foreign-born.

While hate crimes in general decreased by 7 percent in 2020, targeted attacks on Asians increased by over 150 percent over the same period.

According to the latest wealth data of the Federal Reserve Board in the Flow of Funds, the total net worth of households is around $56.8 trillion.27 The wealth of the top 1 percent is therefore around $20.6 trillion. With roughly 113 million households, the average wealth of the richest 1 percent is roughly $18.2 million per household.