Quotes About Statistics

the real problem is that numerical correlations say nothing of people's real needs, of their desires, and of the reasons for their activities. As a result, these numerical data can give a false impression of people. But the use of big data and market analytics is seductive: no travel, little expense, and huge numbers, sexy charts, and impressive statistics, all very persuasive to the executive team trying to decide which new products to develop.

Including Statistics Speaks to the Authority You Have

Life is a game of statistics. There are no guarantees, but the more positive effort you put in, the more likely you will be to win.

Hook the viewer: One study shows that 33 percent of viewers click away and move on after the first thirty seconds of a web video.

She looked up, eyes bright. 'On the first day, before things became intolerable, an overweight, middle-aged woman from Toulouse – a statistician – whom no one paid any attention to gave a very interesting talk on what she called '"triangulation",' she said, pronouncing the English word with a French accent.

If we extrapolate the United States population down to a 100-people village]This village that you inhabit has 14 illiterate members and 27 who have a college education; 5 of the villagers earn a third of the village's entire income, while 6 of them earn less than .3 percent of it; 40 of them think and hope your village is headed towards a biblical end-times Armageddon; and 7 of them own a Britney Spears album.

In America, 13.5 million days of work are lost per year due to work related depression, stress and anxiety.

When you look at the statistics of families dealing with special needs kids, the odds are that the added stress breaks you apart. For some reason, it made us a closer, more compassionate family. It made us a team.

Nearly a third of babies born in hospitals in the United States are delivered via cesarean section, often due to the cautionary nature of modern obstetrical practice.2 Among seventeen thousand home births in a recent study conducted by the Midwives Alliance of North America, only 5.2 percent needed to go the hospital for a C-section.

Only two out of every ten men born in Russia in 1923 survived the Second World War.

According to the latest study, more than half of all NBA players go broke within five years of retirement.

The Vatican City has a much higher crime rate than any other world capital. In 2006, there were more crimes reported than there are citizens; this is of course due to the huge number of tourists visiting the Holy See, and the majority of the crimes are of course not committed by its inhabitants.

The U.S. Surgeon General has declared that attacks by male partners are the number one cause of injury to women between the ages of fifteen and forty-four.

O vinho ela aceita. Também aceita a lagosta, fala lagostim. Mas precisa lembrar a estatística das criancinhas morrendo de fome no Nordeste, esse assunto de Nordeste às vezes exorbita.

Basically in every decade since 1840, life expectancy has increased by two to three years. So if a child born in 2007 has a 50 per cent probability of living to 104, then a child born a decade earlier (1997) has a 50% chance of reaching 101 or 102; a decade earlier (1987) the range is 98 to 100; a decade earlier (1977) 95 to 98; for 1967 it is to 92 to 96; and a decade earlier still (1957) the range is 89 to 94, and so on.

Poland lost about 20 percent of its population, compared to 11 percent for the Soviet Union, 7 percent for Germany, and less than 1 percent for both the United States and Britain.

A statistical analysis, properly conducted, is a delicate dissection of uncertainties, a surgery of suppositions.

Dr. Kent Kiehl, neuroscientist and author of The Psychopath Whisperer, a man who's dedicated his life's work to clinical brain imaging in order to understand mental illness, especially criminal psychopathy, says, "The best current estimate is that just less than one percent of all noninstitutionalized males age eighteen and over are psychopaths.

The French also have far lower rates of obesity than Americans do, despite the fact that their diet is higher in fat.

And never fall into that statistical macho trap that's so prevalent in fly-fishing these days. If you keep score, you can be beaten, but if you refuse to compete you can leave the impression that you have long since risen above that kind of crap. When someone says to you, "I caught forty-eight trout and ten of them were twenty inches or better. How'd you do?" say, "Yeah, we got some. Couple nice ones, too.

Did you know that some of the counties in the coalfields have the highest rates of cancer in the country?

Since 1990, Oklahoma has executed more convicts on a per capita basis than any other state. No place, not even Texas, comes close.

Its population was around 3.5 million, Scotland's barely 850,000.

By '95 - in New York, alone - more Americans had died of AIDS than were killed in Vietnam.