Quotes About Statistics

The first 100 samples reduce uncertainty much more than the second 100. In fact, even the first 10 samples tell you a lot more than the next 10. The initial state of uncertainty tells you a lot about how to measure it.

whether a finding is statistically significant is not the same thing as whether your current state of uncertainty is less than it was before or what the economic value of that uncertainty reduction would be.

the objection to using stats boils down to nothing more than an irrational fear of numbers causing some to believe math somehow detracts from understanding or appreciation

Douglas W. Hubbard

Lloyd There's really nothing to worry about Mary. Statistically they say you're more likely to get killed on the way to the airport. You know, like on a head on crash or flying off a cliff or getting trapped under a gas truck That's the worst I have this cousin, well y'know, I had this cousin...

I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.

After all the statistics and calculations are formulated, the one element that breathes life into marketing is good design.

The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.

Although the statistics vary depending upon whom you ask, virtually everyone who is right handed (over 85% of the U.S. population) is left hemisphere dominant. At the same time, over 60% of left handed people are also classified as left hemisphere dominant. Let's take a closer look at the asymmetries of

Seven hundred thousand people in our society (and their families) who will experience stroke this year. (p.xiv)

Before the revival began, a scant one in ten Americans were church members; by the time it ended, that ratio had risen to eight in ten.

150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.

From 1900 to 1960, America's white population was almost unchanged at around 90%. It is now teetering around 60%. American whites are expected to reach official minority status sometime around 2040. It is estimated that in 1950, whites were around 28% of the global population. This quotient will dip below 10% by 2060.

According to Department of Justice statistics analyzed by Heather Mac Donald regarding the years 2012 and 2013, blacks are the attackers in 84.9% of violent crimes between blacks and whites. Given differences in population sizes, a black is 27 times more likely to violently attack a white than the inverse.

Vending machines kill more people each year than sharks. Statistically, you are twice as likely to be killed by a vending machine than a shark

The U.S., despite having less than 5 percent of the world's population, has roughly 35 to 50 percent of the world's civilian-owned guns.

Chicago led the nation in shootings in the first six months of 2014, with more than 1,100. During the July 4, 2014, weekend alone, there were 84 shootings and 14 homicides in Chicago. Yet the corporate mass media failed to inform the public that Chicago, with some of

also may explain why the prison population in America consisting of more than six million people, exceeds the number of prisoners held in the gulags of the former Soviet Union at any point in its history.

USDA statistics, as of 2012, showed 99 percent of durum wheat, 97 percent of spring wheat, and 61 percent of winter wheat as part of the harvesting process had been doused with Roundup, the world's

For three straight years—1972, 1973, and 1974—bicycles outsold cars in the United States.

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People fly despite knowing that a certain percentage of airplanes crash every year.

Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.

I should meet many people who do not know anyone personally who has been raped or molested as a child. But I can't remember seeing a newspaper without a rape or molestation charge in it somewhere, and when I ask groups how many people know someone personally with a history of molestation, almost always, every hand in the room goes up.