Quotes About Statistics

How large is the black-white difference? The usual answer to this question is one standard deviation. In discussing IQ tests, for example, the black mean is commonly given as 85, the white mean as 100, and the standard deviation as 15.

O não-plantio da safra de 1958 mandava um aviso de que ia haver escassez de alimentos, embora as estatísticas oficiais mostrassem um aumento de dois algorismos na produção agrícola. Anunciou-se oficialmente que em 1958 a safra de trigo da China tinha superado a dos Estados Unidos. O jornal do Partido, o Diário do Povo, abriu uma discussão sobre o tema Como podemos enfrentar o problema da produção excessiva de alimentos?

Bien, escúchame con calma. Los que sufren vértigo, los drogadictos, los histéricos, los asesinos maniáticos, los sifilíticos, los deficientes mentales…, suponiendo que haya el uno por ciento de cada uno de ellos, sobre el total representarían un veinte por ciento… De ser posible enumerar otras ochenta anormalidades, y por supuesto se puede, se constituiría una prueba estadística de que la humanidad es cien por cien anormal.

Third domino: Statistically, rapists didn't just rape once. If they got away with it, they generally kept raping. Even if they didn't get away with it, the recidivism rate was so high that they might as well put a revolving door on every prison.

Eighty percent of custodial suicides are achieved by hanging. Prison inmates are seven times more likely to kill themselves than the general population.

More women are murdered by their intimate partners than by any other group.

Volgens de wet van de grote getallen slaat het bizarre altijd wel een keer toe, als de steekproef maar groot genoeg is.

Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.

All men are not rapists - but almost all rapists are men.

A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".

To ensure marital bliss, a man needs to be 1.09 times taller than his partner.

Women initiate most domestic violence, yet out of a thousand cases of domestic violence, maybe one is involving a man. And this has made a victim of culture out of women.

The Centers for Disease Control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions.

And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex than the way feminists had portrayed it, as men oppressing women.

Man's natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased.

I ... would guess maybe about one or two out of five men is suited for marriage and probably four out of five women are better at marriage than being single and would like to be married.

Cancer is the ultimate nemesis that hangs in the balance for one in three women and one in two men in their lifetime.

There's only one Mark McGwire. The man walked over 160 times. Just think. If he walks 60 times, he might hit 100 homers.

I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.

I saw a story in the Los Angeles Times that 40 percent of the viewers are men. It didn't really surprise me.

The vast majority (over 80 percent) of fast-food and similar low wage service jobs (<$9.24/hr) are held by adults. A quarter are adults over 40. Another quarter are moms raising kids.

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.

Bankruptcies will be up 18 to 42 percent around racinos areas tracks as people lose their money