Quotes About Statistics

The figures for 2002 are even more surprising. Out of 57 million dead, only 172,000 people died in war and 569,000 died of violent crime (a total of 741,000 victims of human violence). In contrast, 873,000 people committed suicide.5 It turns out that in the year following the 9/11 attacks, despite all the talk of terrorism and war, the average person was more likely to kill himself than to be killed by a terrorist, a soldier or a drug dealer.

Mentre nel 2010 l'obesità e le malattie connesse hanno ucciso circa 3 milioni di persone, i terroristi hanno fatto 7697 vittime in tutto il mondo, la maggior parte delle quali nei paesi in via di sviluppo. Per l'americano o l'europeo medio, la Coca-Cola costituisce una minaccia assai più letale di al-Qaida.

In 2012 about 56 million people died throughout the world; 620,000 of them died due to human violence (war killed 120,000 people, and crime killed another 500,000). In contrast, 800,000 committed suicide, and 1.5 million died of diabetes.23 Sugar is now more dangerous than gunpowder.

Marriage is meant to be a very sacred union between two people who have no intention of ever becoming emotionally or physically tied to another person for the rest of eternity. Most people mean their marriage vows when they take them, but oftentimes--these days more often than not, according to statistics--the initial commitment begins to wane and ultimately dissipates altogether. We live in a time when most people who get married before they turn thirty are merely doing a practice run.

In the late 1800s, average consumption was 5 pounds a year per person; today, the figure has increased to an average of 135 pounds of sugar annually.(3)

During that year, 2017, according to FBI statistics, 60 percent of religious hate crimes were anti-Jewish (17 percent were anti-Islamic and 5 percent anti-Catholic).

78 percent never have a single relapse. Less than 15 percent have one relapse but not a second. And those with more than one relapse? A whopping 7 percent.

Of the 4043 millionaires in America then, 3954 had not finished high school.

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

When people of color talk racism, Whites seem to interpret statements as a personal accusation, and rather than reach out to understand the content, respond in a defensive and protective posture. In many cases, even statements of racial facts/statistics such as definitions of racism, disparities in income and education, segregation of neighborhoods, hate crime figures, and so forth arouse defensiveness in many Whites.

40% of the Native American population may be of another race (U.S. Census Bureau, 2005),

More than 40 percent of the suicides among chemists, both men and women, occur from swallowing cyanide, according to a report in the New York Times (9/4/87).

The record of a month's roulette playing at Monte Carlo can afford us material for discussing the foundations of knowledge.

Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.

Charitable giving in the United States has remained at 2% of GDP since 1970.

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process.

Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics.

Half of your success is determined by your positive attitude. The plot thickens... Several national tests have revealed the following startling statistics about why people fail on the job: 20% Improper training. Poor job skills. 15% Poor verbal and written communication skills. 15% Poor or problematic boss or management. 50% Attitude.

statistically insignificant relationship between student evaluations and learning

For instance, even though entrepreneurs in technology often know the statistics that about 80 percent of founders are forced out of their companies by their venture capital investors, I have never heard anyone tell me that this would happen to them. In

Among industrialized countries, the U.S. ranks 29th in infant survival.

A woman is four times more likely to die having a cesarean section than a vaginal birth.

I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.