Quotes About Statistics

225,000 people have died "iatrogenic deaths" in the past year. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), it's the third largest cause of death in the United States.

The Bureau boasted thirteen blacks by the end of that year, out of a total agent force of 6,000 men.

Research among aristocratic women has produced the statistics that 45% died before the age of fifty,one quarter from the complications of childbirth; these figures do not however allow the debilitations caused by consent parturition.Many women must have died of diseases and conditions related to the pain and the perel,worn through by ceaseless child-bearing,who didn't actually die in labour.

There were probably about 70,000 or 80,000 British Catholics in the 1770s, out of a population of seven million, with estimates of the specific Scottish Catholic population varying between 12,000 and 19,000.

In 1825 the Bishop of Chester estimated that there were now about half a million Catholics in England, risen from 67,000 in 1750, while in Glasgow the figure had leaped from 300 to 25,000, almost entirely imported from Ireland.

In that one month of January 1945, Wehrmacht losses rose to 451,742 killed, roughly the equivalent of all American deaths in the whole of the Second World War.

The surgeon-general of the US Army estimated that American front-line forces suffered a 10 per cent rate of psychiatric breakdown.

Tall men are the most romantically successful group on earth, bar none: more successful than rich people, accomplished people and educated people.

Most people couple within their own height range- short couples are 8 percent apart, midsize couples are 8 percent apart. The exception is talls. Tall women, meanwhile, date men who are approximately the same size, 0 to 5 percent taller; extremely tall women go for men 0 to 2 percent taller. Tall men are kids in a candy store, dating whomever they want.

One sample is poor statistics, my math prof used to say.

Datos, datos, datos!» —exclamaba con impaciencia—. «¡No puedo hacer ladrillos sin arcilla!»

average Russian reads three times as many books a year as the average United States citizen.

In London, more people died of the virus in one four-week stretch in April than in the worst four weeks of the Blitz.

Do the math. America allows about one million two hundred thousand abortions per year. According to the Guttmacher Institute, the average cost of an abortion in 2001, the last year for which data was provided by aborters, was $468.00, so by now the average cost exceeds $600. Multiply the number of abortions times the costs of an abortion. That exercise will yield a total of 'blood money' every year in America of close to a billion dollars ($1,000,000,000.00).

The New York City Department of Public Health.recently reported that a startling 41% of pregnancies in the City ended in abortion. The national abortion rate is 24% of all conceived babies who die in utero.

The highest percentages of death by abortion were recorded among minorities and the poor, who, not coincidentally, live in areas with the highest numbers of abortion clinics, placed in those locations by persons with an agenda.

What has been the biggest cause of bloodshed? In fact, what has been the leading cause of death, in America over the last thirty eight years? Murder? Approximately 700,000 persons have died homicidal deaths in that period. That's a tragedy, certainly. Compare, however, the number of Americans who have died at the hands of a murderer, to the number of Americans in the last forty years who have died at the hands of abortionists – fifty five million.

After all, there is in more stable, developed countries like the United States and Britain a quantifiably more vicious culture of child abuse. A report released in January 2010 by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics made clear that sexual abuse in juvenile detention is a national crisis. Some 12.1 percent of 26,550 children represented in the survey by a sample of 9,000 who were interviewed said they had been sexually abused at their current facility during the preceding year,

In God we trust; all others must bring data. ~ W. Edwards Deming

Stories get remembered about 13 times better than statistics. Facts tell, but stories sell!

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.

average men and women don't really exist except as a statistical conceit.

According to the International Narcotics Control Board, the US had consumed 83 percent of the global supply of oxyco-done in 2007. And 99 percent of the world's hydrocodone. No one believed that the US was in that much more pain than the rest of the world.

Same went for babies born addicted to drugs. In 2001, sixty-two Kentucky newborns were hospitalized for neonatal abstinence syndrome. The next year, ninety-three. Two years after that, 166. By 2007, 275.