Quotes About Statistics

Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill of the Brookings Institution have found that of people who follow three traditional rules—graduate from high school, get a full-time job and marry before having children—only 2 percent live in poverty. So play by these rules, called "the success sequence," and by and large one can avoid poverty. In contrast, of those who do none of those three things, 79 percent live in poverty.

it's tragic that up to 40 percent of all pregnancies globally are unplanned or unwanted—and that almost half of those result in induced abortions. By some measures, more than one quarter of all maternal deaths could be avoided if there were no unplanned and unwanted pregnancies.

Average hourly wages were actually lower in 2018 ($22.65) than they had been forty-five years earlier in 1973 ($23.68 in today's prices), according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

But most studies have found that cheating of public assistance programs is quite modest, perhaps 2 percent—less than tax evasion by the wealthy.

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

How big is the "men without work" problem today? Consider a single fact: in 2015, the work rate (or employment-to-population ratio) for American males ages twenty-five–to–fifty-four was slightly lower than it had been in 1940, which was at the tail end of the Great Depression.

They have a very low rate for attempted murder and a high rate for successfully concluded murder. It seems that when a French person sets out to kill someone, they make a good job of it.

De statistiek is het werktuig van wie afziet van het begrijpen om te kunnen manipuleren.

that correlation does not show causation.

But the most important thing to remember is that correlation does not show causation.

As a "Rule of Thumb", Psychologists use 95% certainty as being acceptable. They allow a 5% chance of being wrong. If possible, they prefer 99% certainty, i.e. only 1% chance of being wrong. This is why Psychological research is usually expressed statistically….

What I believe is irrelevant. In the last year, belief in Bigfoot rose from eleven percent to twenty-five percent. Here's another figure: thirty percent of Americans believe that aliens have visited Earth in the not-too-distant past.

You share a birthday with at least nine million other people in the world.

Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball.

In fact, fatal assaults on police officers are statistically rare. The FBI reports that in each year over the past decade, an average of fifty-one (of almost 1 million) officers were feloniously killed.

We're shooting 100 percent - 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.

When I first heard about statistics in 1951, I firmly believed it to be the best technique around, and it took me 26 years to be completely free of its spell.

Since so many research conclusions depend on essentially mathematical ideas-the principles of statistical and probabilistic inference-and since even the best-trained physicians tend to have only a modest mathematical education, physicians end up taking many of these conclusions on faith.

La pauvreté extrême en Chine est évaluée à moins de 1%. Plus de Chinois sont propriétaires de leur logement que tout autre peuple.

the facts of economic life cannot be comprehensively described in terms of statistics.

There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.

I've said many times that statistics reveal a surprising city: one that has more movie theaters than Paris, more abortions than London, more universities than New York. Where nighttime has become sparse, desolate, the kingdom of only a few. Where violence rules, corners us, silences us into a kind of autism.

According to studies that measure the likelihood of a child growing up to be a reader, the most important factor is not how well reading was taught in the child's school, nor the number of hours spent reading aloud to the child. Regardless of the parents' income level or education, the statistic most highly correlated to literacy is the number of books present in the home.

We are first among the nations in per capita giving: it would take three Frenchmen, seven Germans, or fourteen Italians to equal the charitable donations of one American.