Quotes About Statistics

I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year period: Don Carter, one of our top bowlers.

I average 25 with three guys on me and they are just looking at stats I guess.

There should be a new way to record standings in this league; one column for wins, one for losses and one for gifts.

While researching for his talk, Conners had noticed that North Carolina, his adopted home state, owned the dubious distinction of having the nation's highest rate of kids diagnosed with ADHD.

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But remember, that for every cheating wife in Botswana, there are five hundred and fifty cheating husbands. Mma Makutsi whistled. That is an amazing figure, she said. Where did you read that? Nowhere, chuckled Mma Ramotswe. I made it up. But that doesn't stop it from being true.

The 1970s, fewer than 25% of US residents lived in counties in which the presidential candidate won by landslide. 30 years later, that percentage has nearly doubled.

a person with an ACE Score of 4 or more is, statistically, 1,220 percent more likely to attempt suicide than someone with an ACE Score of 0.

Although these attitudes are not universally held, they influence the way many Americans think about reproduction. Myths are more than made-up stories. They are also firmly held beliefs that represent and attempt to explain what we perceive to be the truth. They can become more credible than reality, holding fast even in the face of airtight statistics and rational argument to the contrary.

Early estimates indicated that the average American child or teenager viewed 1,000 murders, rapes, and aggravated assaults per year on television alone (Rothenberg, 1975).

Nearly 70 percent of children's shows contain some violence, whereas 57 percent of nonchildren's shows do (Wilson et al., 2002). Furthermore, a typical hour of children's programming contains 14 different violent incidents, compared with 6 per hour in all other programming.

This is classic data mining. You draw a conclusion and then mine the data retrospectively to find support for it.

two hundred million in 2027.

Women may make slightly less—maybe—but the seventy-seven cents to the dollar statistic is what men and women make, on average. It isn't a comparison of the two sexes in the same jobs, with the same experience. It's comparing total earnings across all jobs, which ends up being apples to oranges in many cases.

Most people are sheep. Stupid and uninformed. And they don't dig. They don't think for themselves. They'll trust a sincere voiceover and whatever the television tells them. But even if they dig, they have no intuition for statistics anyway. Even experts can be fooled.

Jews make up 0.2 percent of the world population, they make up 27 percent of Nobel physics laureates.

The fact that all the diseases of old age have a progression that is exponentially related to age. In other words your chance of having Alzheimer's, for example, at age seventy-five is twice that at age seventy. And your chance of having it age eighty is twice what it was at age seventy-five.

For instance, studies have shown that gay men and lesbian women consistently earn more on average than their heterosexual counterparts.

The median income of Asian men in America is consistently higher than any other group, including white Americans.

Twenty-two percent of people who identified as "very liberal" said they thought the police shot at least ten thousand unarmed black men in a year. Among self-identified liberals, fully 40 percent thought the figure was between one thousand and ten thousand. The actual figure was somewhere around ten.20

Rule of Five There is a 93.75% chance that the median of a population is between the smallest and largest values in any random sample of five from that population.

Measurement: A quantitatively expressed reduction of uncertainty based on one or more observations.

we need to treat measurement as observations that quantitatively reduce uncertainty.

Definition of Measurement Measurement: A quantitatively expressed reduction of uncertainty based on one or more observations.