Quotes About Statistics

Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.

Texas created more jobs in 2008 than the rest of the states - combined.

California - with more cars, more drivers and more people - still has less DWI-related deaths than Texas does.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries.

For the most part, the first thing people I meet that aren't Mormon say is, 'I grew up with a Mormon family. They're the nicest people I know.' So when I see these statistics that it's the most hated religion, I don't know where they're getting that from.

If I was prime minister for a day the first thing I would do would be to close the border. Then we could work out how many people we've got here. Then you get people out who have committed crimes and you look at others who shouldn't be here. Nobody knows how many people we've got here.

No back in the history of football was ever worth two fumbles a game.

I probably saved more black lives as mayor of New York City than any mayor in the history of this city. And I did it by having to use police officers in black areas where there was an astounding amount of crime. If that crime was in white areas, police officers would be in white areas.

The nice thing about baseball is that all of the possible outcomes are known - it's not quite as messy as the real world. That makes the game an excellent playground for probability.

my favorite urban flower, the baseball box score

light of the two centuries of church statistics we have examined, it is obvious that a group can add members and still fail to keep pace with the growth of the population and of other religious firms.

light of the two centuries of church statistics we have examined, it is obvious that a group can add members and still fail to keep pace with the growth of the population and of other religious firms. The mainline denominations do not qualify as rockets that suddenly ran out of fuel in the sixties-their market shares were falling in the forties and fifties too, and throughout the century

As Fama put it, "Life always has a fat tail.

And the irony is that the war purchases are recorded as a positive for economic growth and the GDP. Though the war spending is an economic negative and provides no improvement in the people's standard of living, the government statisticians brag about an upward blip in the GDP. Besides, these bills are paid for by borrowing and printing money, thus increasing future debt obligations and causing higher prices for the next generation.

Almost 6,500 Union and Confederate soldiers were killed in one day at Antietam. This staggering number was four times the number that would be killed in the landings at Normandy on June 6, 1944. The total for this one day was more than the deaths in all of the other wars of the nineteenth century—the War of 1812, the Indian wars, the Mexican War, and the Spanish-American War—combined.

Maandag stierf hij, 102 jaar oud: Ronald Coase, de man die zijn afkeer van de wiskundige modellen in de economie aldus formuleerde: 'Als je de gegevens maar lang genoeg martelt, zullen ze toegeven'.

If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.

if you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything

This is the greatest economy in the HISTORY of America."29 Trump has told this lie over 250 times. Our economy was better under a number of other presidents, including Eisenhower, Johnson, and Clinton.

1 in 3 Native women will be raped in her lifetime (and that figure is certainly higher as Native women often do not report rape); 86 percent of rapes and sexual assaults upon Native women are perpetrated by non-Native men; few are prosecuted.

86 percent of rapes and sexual assaults upon Native women are perpetrated by non-Native men; few are prosecuted.

You rarely hear about police killings of Indigenous people, though the numbers are right up there with Black people, because so often it happens on remote reservations, and the police don't wear cameras. So I was thankful, however shattering the truth, for the witnesses with the cameras.

Numbers never lie, after all: they simply tell different stories depending on the math of the tellers.

Is she in a persistent vegetative state?" quavered David's mother. "Does she have brain damage?" My mother patted her shoulder robotically with a flat, board-like hand. "Unlikely," she said. "From a statistical perspective." A natural nurturer, my mother.