Quotes About Statistics

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.

amounting to .2 percent of the world's population. Although Jews have been around for thousands of years, they have the same number of members as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), which was founded in the nineteenth century. Their survival may well be impressive, but the fact that they have so few members

explanation. Why didn't they accumulate a much larger population?

To say again: One in every four species of mammal is a bat.

Another way to comprehend it is this: From the time of our beginning as a species (about 200,000 years ago) until the year 1804, human population rose to a billion; between 1804 and 1927, it rose by another billion; we reached 3 billion in 1960; and each net addition of a billion people, since then, has taken only about thirteen years. In October 2011, we came to the 7-billion mark

In 1820, Americans spent $ 12 million on liquor, an amount that exceeded the total expenditure of the US government.

He also found out that 20% of people enjoyed 80% of the money.

traders who are honest with themselves, will admit that being consistently successful in this game is extremely hard. Some studies suggest that 95% of traders lose money, and "only 5% of traders can make a living at it," or "only 1% of traders really make big money." 39 John

There are countless observations in all aspects of our lives. For example, in sales, 20% of salespeople seem to make more than 80% of all sales commission.

Statistics are information, not condemnation.

The lesson that this great biologist teaches us is simple: Statistics are information, not condemnation.

The objective, when you have cancer and want to combat fatality, is to make sure you find yourself in the long tail of the curve.

At the same time, the statistics are useful in a sobering way. They inform us that our adversary is formidable and they guard us against irrational optimism.

On average, a teenager is exposed to approximately eighty-four references to drug use every day and almost six hundred references every week—that's more than thirty thousand a year.

There are more than four former Christians for every convert to Christianity •

It is the unrepentant worship of statistics that forms the true orthodoxy of any modern police department.

It is the unrepentant worship of statistics that forms the true orthodoxy of any modern police department. Captains

Google uses click-through statistics as a way to rank search results," George typed. "For people, memory search optimization is achieved by the emotional residue associated with the memories being searched. The strongest emotional associations cause those memories to rank highest.

24 A 2010 study in the Journal of Sports Sciences noted that between 1989 and 1997, the average length of the Tour de France rose from 3,285km to 3,944km (2,040–2,450 miles) and featured 17,000m (55,770 feet) of additional climbing. Average speeds should have slowed by 11.3% during this time. They improved by 4.5%.

Wong is the most common surname in the world . . . " " . . . John is the most common first name in the world." "That's right," I said. "And yet there's not a single person named John Wong. I looked it up." "You know, I work with a John Wong.

The way you'll "watch" the game is through a score sheet that follows the passes, the dribbles, the shots, the rebounds, the steals, the fouls—most everything that happens with the ball. By following these most basic elements of offense, the score sheet will highlight the important aspects of the ebb and flow of the game. It will be like a broadcaster's play-by-play transcript of the game. The

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.

Statistics show that it doesn't matter whether a person is forced to go to a rehab or whether they volunteer. The cure rate is the same.

It was true in the early 1960s, more women smoked than men.