Quotes About Statistics

The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate.

Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.

Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.

The training one receives when one becomes a technician, like a data scientist - we get trained in mathematics or computer science or statistics - is entirely separated from a discussion of ethics.

Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic

50, 000-63, 000 individuals in the United States and 19, 000-25, 000 in the UK die prematurely from cancer annually due to insufficient vitamin D.

Of every 20 British men between 18 and 32 when the war broke out, three were dead and six wounded when it ended.

Of all men who graduated from Oxford in 1913, 31 percent were killed.

more than 35 percent of all German men who were between the ages of 19 and 22 when the fighting broke out, for example, were killed in the next four and a half years, and many of the remainder grievously wounded. For France, the toll was proportionately even higher: one half of all Frenchmen aged 20 to 32 at the war's outbreak were dead when it was over.

The total of British dead and wounded at Passchendaele, officially the Third Battle of Ypres, is in dispute, but a low estimate puts the number at 260,000; most reckonings are far higher.

When a final tally was made after the war, it would show that 27,927 Boers—almost all of them women and children—had died in the camps, more than twice the number of Boer soldiers killed in combat.)

We look to statistics for reassurance in these types of situations. Here is one: 100% of mass shootings have been enabled by access to guns. I can guarantee that even if there were a genotype shared by the mass shooters, which there will not be, none of the killings would have happened if they didn't have guns.

But one half the children born, it is computed, die before the age of manhood.

right wing's most common techniques—including the deceptive use of statistics.

Take facsimile, for example. Over the past two decades, the facsimile has become an indispensable part of every company's communication portfolio. Americans will send 65 billion pages of faxes this year, more than 230 per person. And 50 percent of all international telephone calls are now fax calls.

A further subtlety of a histogram which distinguishes it from the bar chart is that the widths of its bars (which correspond to the class intervals) need not all be the same.

Stemplots, sometimes called 'stem-and-leaf' diagrams, can often be used as an alternative to histograms for representing numerical data.

Scattergraphs (sometimes known as scatterplots or scatter diagrams) are useful for representing paired data in such a way that you can more easily investigate a possible relationship between the two things being measured.

By one estimate, U.S. output per worker hour was double Germany's and five times Japan's.

The average human has one breast and one testicle.

GDP statistics and Keynesian macroeconomic policy were mutually reinforcing.

GDP is the way we measure and compare how well or badly countries are doing. But this is not a question of measuring a natural phenomenon like land mass or average temperature to varying degrees of accuracy. GDP is a made-up entity. The concept dates back only to the 1940s.

If WHO statistics were to be believed, the U.S. had the worst maternal mortality in the industrialized world.

statistician William Sanders in Tennessee, who began his career advising agricultural and manufacturing industries. Sanders claimed that his statistical modeling could determine how much "value" a teacher added to her students' testing performance.