Quotes About Statistics

Your statistical track record for decision-making is somewhat concerning.

I'm just saying that statistically, a psychopath is more likely to end up as a CEO than a serial killer.

Did you know that New Hampshire has more hamsters per capita than any other state?

My companions could make observations. Sloane could generate relevant statistics. If there'd been witness testimony, Michael could have told us who was exhibiting signs of guilt. But here, now, looking at the pictures, this was my domain. I would have to backtrack to explain how I knew, to figure out how I knew -- but I was certain.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than a quarter of the American population suffers a bout of food poisoning each year.

The suicide rate among ranchers and farmers in the United States is now about three times higher than the national average.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of death in the United States, responsible for 840,768 deaths (635,260 cardiac) in 2016.

Black illiteracy decreased to 16.4 percent in 1930, from 45 percent in 1900. Fewer black babies died at birth—by half. Black life expectancy was rising. Most important, blacks were able to find work at about the same rates whites did. Data from the 1930 census would show black unemployment nationally standing slightly below white unemployment.

Coolidge weighed only 119.5 pounds, below the class average, despite a height that was slightly more than average, 68.9 inches.

Almost two-thirds of these six million people are women. Almost two-thirds of the caregivers for those Alzheimer's patients are also women.

According to the 2013-2014 National Pet Owners Survey, there are 86.4 million cats kept in 45.3 percent of U.S. households, a number expected to rise.

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

In the United States, a park ranger is more likely to be assaulted in the line of duty than is any other federal officer, including those who work for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF); the Secret Service; and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). A park ranger is twelve times more likely to die on the job than is a special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

If SUV drivers were a nation, in 2018 they would have ranked seventh for CO2 emissions.

Of babies born alive and in hospitals during that month of July 1945, 92 percent would die within then days.

The difference between "significant" and "not significant" is not itself statistically significant

As figure 5.1 shows, in the past the United States was not more economically stratified than other countries, but the last thirty years have seen exceptional growth in the incomes of the richest Americans.

I spend way too much time watching television, going to sports games, going to movies. It struck me that there's an awful lot of data in the public domain for these sectors. The movie industry publishes weekly sales numbers - not many industries do.

If today is your typical day in America, 80 of our fellow citizens will die from gunfire. In the last two weeks, more Americans have died from gunfire here at home in the United States than in the entire war in Iraq since it started.

I am actually 7 foot and and one-half inches tall. I say Seven two because it's easier. Unlike some tall skinny guys I am really 'big' weighing around 350 pounds.

Ninety percent of people who lose weight gain it back. It's very sad.

Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat.

Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare.

In '86 or '87, the welfare lists were at the lowest level in 17 years. Why? Because the economy was the best it was in 17 years. There were jobs.