Quotes About Statistics

Little known fact: offensive tackles score higher on the Wonderlic than any other position.

Only about 15 percent of white Americans belonged to any church during the colonial period.

The big mystery of Big Data is causation versus correlation.

Healthcare is growing now at about 10 per cent per annum in the U.S. top line, versus 3 per cent for the economy. As someone with a sharp pencil and an eye for this kind of thing, this can't last.

I think the difference between America and Australia is very simple. It's 20 million people versus 350 million.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

There are some scary statistics out there: one in five kids aged 10-17 have received a sexual solicitation or approach via the Internet.

I've played games where I thought I played one of my better games, and statistically, there's nothing there, and vice versa. I've never based how I feel about my performance on stats.

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

I must learn to adapt, or else I'll fall victim to the negative statistics surrounding retired athletes.

I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency.

According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. More than 30 percent were slain by family members, boyfriends, and girlfriends. Nearly half of all murders were committed by friends, neighbors, and casual acquaintances.

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

The long view of the Census bureau allows some changes that are taken for granted to be studied in more detail. Everyone knows, for example, that people get married later than they used to.

I've read that one out of twenty-four people is a sociopath, and if you ask me, the other twenty-three of you should be worried.

In 1942, only about 4 percent of American women had completed four years of college.

If you do everything you should do, and do not do anything you should not do, you will, according to the best available statistics, live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise.

Statistics also show that, unfortunately, once someone seriously suspects infidelity, more often than not, their suspicion is correct.

68% of all Child Protective Services (CPS) cases do not involve child maltreatment but are for "deprivation of necessities due to poverty.

There is no national data to show precisely how many adoptions fail, or track how many children need additional help, and states are not required to track or report the figures.

70% of all inmates in California's prisons have spent time in foster care. One third of all those youth who are 'aged out' will end up in prison within one year" -Project

Fun fact: the countries with the most therapists per capita are, in descending order, Argentina, Austria, Australia, France, Canada, Switzerland, Iceland, and the United States.)

Una revisión de la literatura relevante demuestra que la felicidad es estadísticamente anormal,

Butters, I said, Don't give me statistics on heart failure. Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it.