Quotes About Statistics

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, some forty million Americans, nearly one in seven of us, are suffering from some kind of anxiety disorder at any given time, accounting for 31 percent of the expenditures on mental health care in the United States.

California State University Professor Mike Orkin points out that if a person drives ten miles to buy a ticket, he or she is about sixteen times more likely to get killed in a car crash on the way than to win the jackpot. Wait a minute, you say; that may be for one ticket, but they're buying a lot of tickets—surely, that improves the odds. It does, but Orkin notes that a person who buys fifty tickets a week will win the jackpot on average about once every 30,000 years.

Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.

If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it's one of my favorite places to renovate.

The statistics requested respecting the number of crimes that have been solved by tracing the firearm back to the registered owner are not kept at this time and are therefore not available.

By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.

You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have major complications.

When it comes to crime, the violent crime rate in America has been lowered during my presidency and any time in the last three, four decades.

Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.

The population of the United Kingdom has, for the first time, reached sixty million. If they stood on each other's shoulders they would reach perhaps twenty feet in the air before toppling over.

If you got a hit every third time that you went up to bat in the major leagues, you'd be the greatest hitter of all time. I think my average is a little better than that.

Nobody looks at opinion polls with more attention than politicians, but of course you've got to remember that a single poll is a snapshot in time.

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.

Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so. - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

Two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind—politics and religion. He doesn't want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Según un informe del año 2015 del FBI que desglosa los delitos de odio según su tipología, un 59,2 por ciento de estos delitos fueron motivados por prejuicios raciales, un 19,7 por ciento por prejuicios religiosos (la mayoría de los cuales, antijudíos, aunque crece el número de los antimusulmanes) y un 17,7 por ciento por prejuicios sobre la orientación sexual.

All wars end up being reduced to statistics, strategies, debates about their origins and results. These debates about war are important, but not more important than the human story of those who fought in them.

Belgian officials concluded that 'the Hutu-Tutsi question posed an undeniable problem' and proposed that official usage of the terms 'Hutu' and 'Tutsi' - on identity cards, for example - should be abolished. The Hutu, however, rejected the proposal, wanting to retain their identifiable majority; abolition of the identity cards would prevent 'the statistical law from establishing the reality of facts'. The idea gained ground that majority rule meant Hutu rule.

As you are aware, E is the most common letter in the English alphabet

Data! data! data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.

Data! data! data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.

Data! data! data! he cried impatiently. I can't make bricks without clay.