Quotes About Statistics

Statistically after six months, if an Indigenous or non-Indigenous person has come off welfare, even long-term welfare, and has stuck in that's job for six months, then they've really broken in their own psychology the welfare reliance mentality. They're up on their own two feet.

Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.

If you think about it, 534 members of the U.S. Congress cannot all be religious. That's just statistical nonsense. Many of them are quite well-educated.

The crests and troughs in Covid-19 cases and the spikes and falls of daily infographics by which we now measure the wellness of our lives have been based mostly on city-driven data.

When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.

Networks love data. They love to be able to look at numbers and try to predict what they think will work.

Every second minute, a woman or a girl dies in the world due to pregnancy.

More than half of pregnant women in the U.S. are obese, which leads to complications like hypertension, gestational diabetes and high blood pressure.

After 40, your chances of getting pregnant are between two and eight percent, and in my particular case, they were less than five percent.

English players are as easy to coach. The problem is that the Premier League has the best players in the world, and statistically not all of them can be born in England. But we don't have enough English players: we are working very hard on it.

I've scored as many goals for Manchester United in the Premier League as for Chelsea, but in something like 30 games less.

Since President Bush took office, we have lost 3 million more good jobs.

I have no idea what my batting average was in high school, but I know it wasn't below .450, and that's pretty good hitting where I come from.

My average against hitters is pretty good.

In economics, it is easier to agree on the data than to agree on causality.

We don't have enough data about how lifestyle decisions impact our health.

I collect a lot of data. We all do.

Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.

Every day we go over data and use science and data to drive policy and decision-making.

I think the '06 Ravens, if we woulda won a championship, would have been considered maybe the best of all time, because statistically, I think that defense led the NFL in more categories than any other defense in history.

I understand demographics.

Demography is destiny.

If Scotland was independent, we'd be the 14th richest country in the developed world.

In 1900, 180-plus out of every 1,000 African-American babies died.