Quotes About Statistics

In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.

Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.

Maybe as many as two thousand in the US, five or six hundred in Canada, and about four hundred in Mexico.

When babies listen, what they're doing is taking statistics on the language that they hear.

The death of European Christianity means the disappearance of the European tribe, a prospect visible in the demographic statistics of every Western nation.

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.

One in four girls will experience sexual abuse by the time she is sixteen, and 48 percent of all rapes involve a young woman under the age of eighteen. It's not surprising then, that in a society where sexual abuse of young women is rampant, many women never share their stories. They remain hidden and invisible.

Child mortality [since 2000 is] down by 2.65 million a year. That's a rate of 7,256 children's lives saved each day. … It drives me nuts that most people don't seem to know this news.

The good news is that divorce, in Britain at least, has been shown to improve the happiness of the divorcees and their adult children (aged eighteen to thirty) after the knot is broken.

Binge writers are also binge readers and binge statisticians.

Collecting data is easy; writing about data is hard.

Most players who retire with 14 career home runs and a lifetime batting average of .200 will be little remembered in five years, let alone forty. But most players aren't Bob Uecker.

By 1800 the U.S. Indian population stood at about 600,000, a pathetic remnant of the estimated 2.2 million on the eve of European colonization.

By 1500, the North American population comprised an estimated seven to ten million people.

To start with, a person is considered 'cured of cancer' if they don't die within five years of diagnosis.

More people die each year from preventable medical errors in hospitals than from breast cancer and automobile accidents combined.

Two of the five women had a recurrence of cancer. That's a pretty high percentage. And who was to say cancer wouldn't return in one or more of the other three? It started to become clear to us that the medical industry had created a cancer conveyor belt.

chemotherapy does not work for the majority of cancers.' And

Government studies show that there are still more than two million race-based housing discrimination crimes every year.8

Ida was clearly exasperated by the fact that despite the motives that accompanied the lynching statistics published year after year—which Ida included in nearly every article—"law-abiding and fair-minded people should so persistently shut their eyes to the facts." Ida continued, "This record, easily within the reach of every one who wants it," made it "inexcusable" for anyone not to debunk the presumption from the beginning.

We've got fourteen women in the Senate. Fourteen women in the Senate? We are 52 percent of the population. Apparently women do suck at math.

Luck is statistics taken personally.

An unlikely event is likely to happen because there are so many unlikely events that could happen.

Statistics mean nothing to the individual. Not a damn thing.