Quotes About Statistics

Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world.

A couple of websites I've come across credit the 'New York Times' for reporting that 12,000 women a year are arrested for breastfeeding in public. I could not confirm that number with a quick search, but even 1,200 would be too many - or even 12.

More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers.

Our families have fallen to pieces. 75 percent of all black children are born out of wedlock, without a father.

The Leave campaign claims we send £350 million a week to Europe. This is untrue. When you take into account the rebate Margaret Thatcher got for us and the money we get back in E.U. funding, the true figure is nowhere near that.

Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today.

When you poll all of the economists, uh, across America that I think are intellectually honest they would all, or maybe not all, but 95% of them 96% of them would say you know we really have got a powerful economy.

Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.

Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.

I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.

I think polling methodology is broken.

I know that a lot of people love to say that polls are wrong or don't matter, and from time to time they are - it depends on who they are polling.

The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake.

National polls basically always misinterpret the final outcome or mis-predict the final outcome.

Polls are inaccurate in my opinion, based upon anecdotal evidence, based upon people that I know.

Exit polls have gone notoriously wrong in the past.

One shouldn't always assume polls are wrong, but if anyone learned anything from 2016 and 2018, it's that polls are not always right.

I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.

The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear.

Women are not diversity. We're half the population.

You know, 88% of New Yorkers who have died from Covid are people of color. We are not 80% of the New York City population.

Our country needs to produce 250,000 net new jobs every month just to keep even with population growth.

The risk that people pose to wolfdogs is far greater, statistically, than the risk that wolfdogs pose to people. Many are bred in miserable, inhumane conditions, and kept in equally miserable, inhumane conditions.

To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.