Quotes About Statistics

I love baseball - 'Moneyball' was my favorite book when I was 13.

In 2009, the proportion of American women who were married dropped below 50 percent.

only between 5 percent and 20 percent of forcible rapes in the United States are reported to the police; a paltry 0.4 percent to 5.4 percent of rapes are ever prosecuted; and just 0.2 percent to 2.8 percent of forcible rapes culminate in a conviction that includes any time in jail for the assailant. Here's another way to think about these numbers: When an individual is raped in this country, more than 90 percent of the time the rapist gets away with the crime. —

Using data gathered in 2011, the CDC study estimated that across all age groups, 19.3 percent of American women "have been raped in their lifetimes" and that 1.6 percent of American women—nearly two and a half million individuals—"reported that they were raped in the 12 months preceding the survey.

When an individual is raped in this country, more than 90 percent of the time the rapist gets away with the crime. —

No more than 20 percent of rapes are reported to the police, a statistic that defies comprehension until one looks closely at how sexual-assault cases are adjudicated in the United States.

Rape is the most underreported serious crime in the nation.

It's been estimated that approximately 85 percent of all rapes are in fact committed by assailants who are acquainted in some way with their victims, and that only a small percentage of these "non-stranger rapes" result in the successful prosecution of the rapist.

As the dissimilar results from these two government surveys suggest, it is impossible to state with certainty how many women are raped each year. Quantifying the prevalence of sexual assault is a highly speculative exercise because at least 80 percent of those who are assaulted don't report the crime to authorities.

the vast majority of rapes, well over eighty percent, are actually non-stranger rapes." One of the other myths, he added, was the widely held belief that "a non-stranger assault is less serious and has less serious harm

According to Google's own research into our "eye movements," 53 percent of us don't go beyond the first two search results, and 89 percent don't look down past the first page.

Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of human history. In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldn't, because there aren't enough skulls!

Animal agriculture is now dominated by the factory farm- 99.9% of chickens raised for meat, 97% of laying hens, 99% of turkeys, 95% of pigs, and 78% of cattle.

None of his colleagues or friends, or former colleagues or former friends, had died. Sometimes it amazed him that he'd managed to live forty-two years without proximity to mortality. And that amazement was always followed by the fear that the statistics would catch up with him and offer a lot of death at once. And he wouldn't be ready.

Si bien es obvio, o debería serlo, que el duelo no es una enfermedad, podemos encontrar en las estadísticas médicas algunos datos inquietantes: – 90% de las personas sufren trastornos del sueño durante el duelo, – 50% padecen seudoalucinaciones auditivas o visuales, – 50% tienen síntomas similares a los que condujeron al fallecido a la muerte, – 4% de parientes cercanos fallecen en el primer año de duelo.

El 73 % de todo el trabajo (físico e intelectual) que se hace en el mundo está en manos femeninas, pero... los hombres cobran todavía el 75 % de la suma total de los salarios.

las pruebas de la muerte son estadísticas y nadie hay que no corra el albur de ser el primer inmortal

The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.

The Swiss—also a federation of semi-independent states—are even more attached to their guns than Texans, and they have a greater number per capita, but death by shooting is so rare they don't even collate the figures.

deaths by bullet per 100,000. In at number one is Colombia, with a whopping 51.8 whacks. Next is Paraguay with 7.4, then Guatemala, Zimbabwe, Mexico, Costa Rica, Belarus, Barbados, and the United States with 2.97—just ahead of Uruguay.

In the nineteenth century, one in three British soldiers was an Irishman.

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In a few decades, the Indigenous population in Cuba declined by perhaps as much as 95 percent.

By 1530, the Indigenous population of Hispaniola had declined by about 96 percent.