Quotes About Statistics

A nação não sabe ler. Há só 30% dos indivíduos residentes neste país que podem ler; desses uns 9% não leem letra de mão. 70% jazem em profunda ignorância

Doutor em matérias escuras e complicadas, sabia muito bem o valor dos números, a significação dos gestos não só visíveis como invisíveis, a estatística da eternidade, a divisibilidade do infinito.

In the general American population, 3.9 percent of adult men are six foot two or taller. Among my CEO sample, almost a third were six foot two or taller.

Having a parent incarcerated increases a child's chances of juvenile delinquency between 300 and 400 percent; it increases the odds of a serious psychiatric disorder by 250 percent.

According to the law professor Richard Sander, more than half of all African-American law students in the United States—51.6 percent—are in the bottom 10 percent of their law school class and almost three-quarters fall in the bottom 20 percent.

If more than two percent of the neighborhood goes to prison, Clear concluded, the effect on crime starts to reverse.

The statistics show that the Southerner who can avoid arguments and adultery is as safe as any other American, and probably safer." In the backcountry, violence wasn't for economic gain. It was personal. You fought over your honor.

When [Sylvia] Plath committed suicide, the suicide rate for women of her age in England reached a staggering 10 per 100,000. Driven by a tragically high number of deaths by gas poisoning. That is as high as the suicide rate for women in England has ever been. By 1977 when the Natural Gas changeover was complete, the suicide rate for young woman was half that.

because when you run a business, five to six percent of your revenues are going to be lost to theft. That's the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners' statistics.

Demographics don't lie, economies don't lie. When the median age of your population is twenty-four-years-old and a quarter of the working population's unemployed - this is not a recipe for success.

Depression claims more years than war, cancer, and AIDS put together. Other illnesses, from alcoholism to heart disease, mask depression when it causes them; if one takes that into consideration, depression may be the biggest killer on earth. Treatments

At least three times as many mentally ill people are in jail as are in hospitals.

The actual history of interracial rape - according to FBI statistics - is that, since the 70's, approximately 15,000 to 36,000 white women have been raped by black men every year, while, on average, zero black women are raped by black men. (The Department of Justice uses 0 to denote fewer than ten victims.

Somebody's noticing the immigrant crime wave: Google illegal alien crime and you'll get more than 2 million hits. Google immigrant crime and you'll get 40 million. Only our government and media refuse to notice. Then they turn around and denounce anyone else's estimate, saying: You don't know that. So tell us! We "don't know that" only because the people in a position to know have decided to keep it secret.

America has already taken in more than one-quarter of Mexico's entire population, according to the Pew Research Center's analysis of census data.

El cómico francés Coluche tenía un tremebundo chiste: "en la primera guerra mundial, hubo 75% de víctimas militares y 25% civiles. En la segunda, 50% militares y 50% civiles". Y remataba diciendo: "¡En la próxima será mejor ser militar!

Just to make sure it wasn't cancer. Or a heart attack. Or lymphangioleiomyomatosis. Which, sure, only affected one out of a million people, but it started with a cough, and if you were the one out of a million, then you were done-like-dinner within the year.

If all you know is how many times someone hit a target, it is loserthink to judge how accurate they are. You also need to know how many times they missed.

Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.

The paradoxical conclusion is that it would be very unlikely for unlikely events not to occur.

A study indicates that whether or not a department has a mathematics or a statistics requirement is the most important single determinant of where a woman will attend graduate school to study political science.

We all die. Nearly half of us die of cancer (38 percent of females, 45 percent of males).

yet cancer rates in New England are higher than in Colorado—an inverse effect.

Information is a measure of uncertainty reduced.