Quotes About Statistics

One assiduous historian has recently estimated that approximately 170,000 slaves were introduced into North America between 1783 and 1810, with more than 100,000 of these arriving in the first decade of the nineteenth century.

We look to statistics for reassurance in these types of case. Here is one: 100 percent 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.

Something on the order of 107 billion modern humans have existed, though this number depends on when exactly you start counting.

100 percent of mass shootings have been enabled by access to guns.

statistician David Spiegelhalter has puzzled on the numbers that describe our sexual lives, and estimates that something like 900,000,000 acts of heterosexual intercourse take place per year in Britain alone, or roughly 100,000 per hour. If we extrapolate that to the seven billion humans alive, it works out at around 166,667 every minute.

Lovallo and Kahneman offer a useful prescription to repair this cognitive bias: Get the data. Track down actual figures on launch failure rates for your company, your industry, other industries or projects similar to yours. The numbers will be fascinating – and sobering.

risky launches are. As if intoxicated by their own sense of self-confidence, they plunge ahead, often committing many of the same mistakes that have doomed countless launches before them. They end up adding to the dismal failure statistics.

I don't pay attention a whole lot to what my numbers are.

The only two times we have peaked above world average is when we got to No. 1 in the world in 2011 and when we got to No. 2 in the world in 2004 under Michael Vaughan.

Today it has been estimated that the average 70 year old has four chronic conditions and consumes an average of 35 PBS scripts per year for those conditions.

At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas.

The number of electrical injuries cared for in hospitals in the US is estimated at as many as 50,000; the cost of these injuries on the US economy is estimated at over one billion dollars per year.

Compared to the United States and certainly a lot of other countries around the world... per year, Australians do see more films.

In 2003 Scotland had 36 new business registrations per 10,000 adults. It's still the same.

Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.

The Screen Actors Guild numbers are frightening: Something like 90 percent of the roles are for men, 5 percent are for livestock and 5 percent are for women.

Long ago when I went to college, campuses were about 70 percent male, and until 1970, it was still nearly 60 percent.

Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women.

Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland.

And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.

More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2002.

More Americans own their home than ever before. Nearly 70 percent of American's are homeowners. So it is a good time for us to asses the positive impacts of homeownership on families, communities and on the nation's economy.

That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers.

Field-goal percentage is very important.