Quotes About Statistics

The death rate is a fact; anything beyond this is an inference.

If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.

Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.

The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services.

Seventy-five thousand people a day become Christians, two-thirds of whom live in Africa.

Les hémorragies cérébrales sont moins fréquentes chez les amateurs et les joueurs de football que chez le reste de la population. Les cerveaux aussi.

To justify murdering tens of millions, Stalin is reputed to have said, "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

Some say that as many as 10 percent of human beings are sociopaths.

Not long ago, ninety percent of homicides were committed by people who knew their victims. Now as many as thirty percent involved people who didn't know each other. Once a crime of intimacy, homicide was becoming as random as death by lightning.

Nearly every African who has given the issue thought knows that America is not only not racist, it is the best place for an African to immigrate to. That is why more black Africans have come to America voluntarily than came to America as slaves — a statistic that virtually no college student is allowed to know.

Though Israel is charged with engaging in genocide against Palestinians, in the last 20 years, the number of Palestinians has doubled; and since Israel's founding in 1948, the Palestinian population has grown five-fold. It must surely rank as the least effective genocide in world history.

I don't know how we judge performance when you have 13 pass attempts to the other guy's 40.

In 1820, the average lifespan was just 26 years. Twenty-six years!

Domestic violence is much more prevalent than people realize.

Do you know that driving accidents are the number one cause of death for young people?

I've been in eleven no-hitters you know.

India has given too much emphasis on players' records than on the actual performance of the team.

Europeans are really dying out!

Wer etwas annähernd Objektives über unsere Sicherheit erfahren möchte, sollte nicht den staatlichen Sicherheitsexperten oder den medialen Angstprofiteuren zuhören, sondern lieber einen Blick in die Statistiken werfen.

In the sample of accountants, 64 percent were ST, and among the finance and

The lottery is a tax on people who flunked math.

Brenda knew it was just a fluke, that statistically speaking I was almost always at least partially full of shit, but the other two passengers were real impressed, like I was all at one with my natural habitat.

In America today, there are over 1.1 million nonprofit organizations, and almost all are 501(c)(3)s. There are about 370,000 churches. Just twenty years ago, in 1995, there were 500,000 active 501(c)(3)s and about 370,000 churches. What these numbers show is that in twenty years the competition has nearly doubled. Each year finds the number of nonprofits in America growing.