Quotes About Statistics

Children of those who have been incarcerated are five times more likely to go to prison than children of parents who have never been incarcerated. The sins of the father visiting the child.

According to most studies on the subject, boys who grow up without fathers grow up at a disadvantage.

The hijacking of an American jet in Athens looms larger in our concern than the parent who kills a child, even though the one happens rarely, and the other happens daily.

Statistically 1 out of 5 females and 1 out of 8 males will go through a depressive episode at some point during their lives. You're never alone.

Half the people you know are below average.

42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

Every year, 4,744,000 women in the United States are physically assaulted by their partners.

Twice as many women were murdered by current or former male partners between 2001 and 2012 as there were troops killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

An ax killing in itself is rare—but an ax killing by a woman is rarer than a Republican at an NPR fund-raiser.

Im just as human as you. But its no use asking me for a final statement. As I say, I deal in tactics. Also statistics: for every year of peace there have been four hundred years of war.

The survey of the time spent in the home by most housewives established that, on average, they worked 75 hours a week, with overtime on Saturdays and Sundays. This did not take into account that a number of women were also doing part or full-time work outside the home.

how many times the video had been watched—all thirteen thousand, four hundred, and thirty-one viewings.

I was sick of the body count that existed around my family. It seemed statistically that eventually the body count would include my family.

If you have a fear of flying, don't. The data are very clear: If you have to travel someplace, the safest way is by airplane.

A good technician gets it right maybe 60% of the time. And a great technician, maybe 61% of the time.

Now, a 45-degree angle is not something we deal with in finance. It's something you see in a high school geometry class. Performance like that has never been recorded in human history.

It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon.

The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.

Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution.

A nuclear power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

Odds on meeting a single man: 1 in 23; a cute, single man: 1 in 429; a cute, single, smart man, 1 in 3,245,873; when you look your best, 1 in a billion.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they are okay, then it's you.

our planet is going to hell. But it's all OK, because it helps the growth figures.