Quotes About Statistics

The National Association of Theater Concessionaires reported that in 1986, 60% of all candy sold in movie theaters was sold to Roger Ebert.

According to a brand new report, alcohol abuse in Ireland is on the rise. Mainly because the guy who didn't drink now does.

About 14 percent of our nation's civilian workforce is foreign-born.

I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios.

That's the fourth extra base hit for the Padres - two doubles and a triple.

Don't be a novelist --- be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination.

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.

If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth

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

Someone created the box score, and he should be shot.

I'm not going to lie. I check the iTunes charts. It's all about the iTunes charts. I only go on the Internet for the iTunes charts and basketball blogs.

When you cure a blind person, he or she is not a statistic.

Come out strong when you write. Give a startling statistic or key information.

We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2 000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth - in the wealthiest, most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.

The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750 000 girls per year.

1 in 4 women will be raped in their lifefime, less than 10% will report the assault, and less than 5% of the rapists will go to jail.

By 2008, illegitimacy had reached extraordinary levels: 72 percent for blacks, 66 percent for American Indians, 53 percent for Hispanics, 29 percent for whites, and 17 percent for Asians.185 A majority of black, Hispanic, and Indian children are therefore coming into the world without the support of a married couple.

Black and Hispanic men are at least twice as likely as whites to batter their wives and girlfriends.195* One 2005 study found that Hispanic women were nine times more likely than white women to report domestic violence.196 Blacks are 8.4 times more likely than whites to kill their spouses.197

Prof. Nikolai Roussanov of the Wharton School has found that both blacks and Hispanics spend 50 percent less on medical care than do whites with similar incomes, and that blacks and Hispanics spend 16 percent and 30 percent less, respectively, on education than do whites with similar incomes.

With so much failure in the air, you can't help but breathe it in. Don't inhale. Don't get fooled by the stats. Other people's failures are just that: other people's failures

The odds of getting a diet soda when you order one at the drive-through are roughly better than chance.

Ninety-three percent of American motorists believe they are better-than-average drivers. In a 2007 BusinessWeek poll, 90 percent of the managers surveyed believed their performance in the workplace to be in the top 10 percent.4

According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, medical treatment is the third-leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer in the United States.