Quotes About Statistics

Ninety-eight percent of the blue whales killed globally after the ban in 1966 were killed by Soviet whalers," wrote a historian, "as were 92 percent of the 1,201 humpbacks killed commercially between 1967 and 1978."99

In other words, a gun is twenty-two times more likely to be used in a criminal assault, an accidental death or injury, a suicide attempt, or a homicide than it is for self-defense.67

In a 2009 Harris Poll of 2,303 adult Americans, people were asked to "indicate for each [category below] if you believe in it, or not." The results were revealing.1 God 82 % Miracles 76 % Heaven 75 % Jesus is God or the Son of God 73 % Angels 72 % Survival of the soul after death 71 %

The 50–50–90 rule: Anytime you have a 50–50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong. Andy Rooney

Speculation is looked upon as being so much more risky than other avocations cause its results are more sudden and startling, though not one whit more disastrous. Statistics show that ninety-five out of one hundred men fail in mercantile life. The proportion is not greater among speculators: quicker action is obtained whether it be favorable or unfavorable, and it does not take five or ten years' time to find that you are playing a losing game."7

At the time of Christ the world population stood at about 200 million. By AD 1200 the world population had doubled to about 400 million. By the time of the American Revolution, in 1776, the world population had doubled again, to about 800 million. The population doubled again by 1900, to about 1.6 billion. The population doubled again by 1960, to more than 3 billion.1 From the time of Christ the population doubles in

People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.

beds last on an average much longer than marriages...

During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

South Africa has the second highest rate of serial homicides, the United States of America having the highest. Unconfirmed reports indicate that there have been fifteen serial killers active in Russia in the past five years.

South Africa has the third highest murder rate in the world, with Colombia and Swaziland ahead of it. The high rate of murder illustrates the amount of work that a Murder and Robbery detective has to cope with, and yet South Africa holds the record for apprehending serial killers within three to six months of a special investigation team being established, provided the serial killer stays active.

In co-operation with Dr Mark Wellman of the MTN Centre for Crime Prevention Studies at Rhodes University, we will have established a data bank on serial killers by the end of 2000. This data bank is a sought after commodity by the rest of the world, since South Africa has the second highest number of serial killers. The United States of America has the highest and unconfirmed reports indicate that there have been about fifteen serial killers in Russia in the past five years.

Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world.

They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

Manhattan had the same population density as Greenland, its population would be two.

Short-term travel has quadrupled: in 1980, the number of international tourist arrivals accounted for just 3.5 percent of the world's population, compared to almost 14 percent in 2010.16 Every year, an estimated 320 million people fly to attend professional meetings, conventions, and international gatherings—and their numbers are steadily growing.17

660 million Chinese have escaped poverty since 1981, for example. In Asia, the percentage of those living in extreme poverty dropped from 77 percent of the population in the 1980s to 14 percent in 1998.

I took a course called Statistical Analysis. And there was a guy in the course who used to make up all his computations, and he never used sigma. He used his own initials. Because he was the standard deviation.

I took a course at Cal once called Statistical Analysis. And there was a guy in the course who used to make up all of his computations and he never used Sigma. He used his own initials. 'Cause he was the standard deviation.

15 percent of the adult population in major cities like Berlin, Vienna, Paris, and London.

tuberculosis was then responsible for one in seven of all European deaths.

I always find that statistics are hard to swallow and impossible to digest. The only one I can ever remember is that if all the people who go to sleep in church were laid end to end they would be a lot more comfortable.

A sociologist is a zoologist who has statistics of unstable thinking, whims. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

of Markov chain analysis.4