Quotes About Statistics

The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's easy: 100 per cent.

I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.

[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.

I think, traditionally, when the federal government has gathered statistics, it's been done in silos, so every agency really focuses on the statistics that are important to agency.

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.

Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.

No great marketing decisions have ever been made on qualitative data

In 1860, sixty-three per cent of the couples married in Great Britain had families of four or more children; in 1925 only twenty per cent had more than four.

AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

It's the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among our adult population.

1 in 5 people have dandruff. 1 in 4 people have mental health problems. I've had both.

I went back in British history. Some 204 people died there after a mine collapsed in 1838. In 1866, 361 miners died in Britain. In an explosion in 1894, 290 people died there.

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.

As you know, in this country Anglo-Americans are about 75 to 76 percent home ownership in this country, where Hispanics, African Americans are less than 50 percent.

The U.S. Census Bureau reports that American homes are 650 square feet larger today than they were in 1980. Unfortunately, so are most Americans.

Statistically, it would be insanity to go into the theatre for money. According to the statistics, you should just stay home. The odds are just incredible.

If You Don't Claim Your Humanity, You Will Become A Statistic.

If 4 out of 5 people SUFFER from diarrhea…does that mean that 1 enjoys it?

Remember, in China when you are one in a million, there are 1,300 other people just like you.

in china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you

Believe it or not, there are twice as many eyebrows in the world as there are people.

A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.

over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.