Quotes About Statistics

Statistically, I've done my best work at FC Bayern. I just feel really good here.

My record is good with Birmingham and Wigan. Just study the facts.

Children with no father at home are between four and five times more likely to be poor as the children of married parents, whether they are black or white.

When you look at the best Nos. 6 and 7 in the world, they all average above 45, so gone are the days when you could get away with someone at 6 or 7 who's below 40. You need to have those runs on the board.

When I was in Boston, I averaged 14 a game.

So, listen, my record in the Ryder Cup is as good as anybody's really, breaking it down, points-wise.

One in 10 women will get breast cancer at some stage in their life and that's quite a scary thought.

A lot of times, I think broadcast commentators can get bogged down with stats and personal agendas.

Look at my nine-year career: I've always been close to a point a minute. I've always been a walking bucket.

I either do really well in spring training, or I suck. I either hit .350 or .150.

I've always been in good shape. I just sucked early in my career from a statistical perspective.

I like to peruse the Full Contact Poker online forums to read and comment on posts about interesting poker hands and whether they were played properly. I find that many of the contributors consistently suffer from the same problem: they are far too preoccupied with statistically insignificant aspects of a poker hand.

You live by the media, you live by the polls, you've got to suffer by the polls, too.

Every man, woman and child consumes, on average, 43 teaspoons of sugar a day. In 13 days, that adds up to a five-pound bag of sugar.

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

The data strongly suggest that very good years in the U.S. stock market are followed by more good years.

There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic.

When suicide hit my family, we learned first-hand that no one is immune from what is now the 10th leading cause of death in the US.

I heard a stat claiming there's a new millionaire in China every 10 minutes - that means there are more millionaires than there are available cars. That's why cars that only come up once in a lifetime, like a Jaguar D-Type, will always fetch such big sums.

My numbers are better than Troy Aikman, but he has Super Bowl rings and he's played with Hall of Famers as well.

The Germans had more men killed and wounded at Verdun, 325,000, than all the 230,000 men deployed in the field at Stalingrad twenty-six years later.

In 2016 a Johns Hopkins study found that more than 250,000 Americans die each year from preventable medical errors, effectively making modern medicine the third leading cause of death in the US.

In our case, we live in a National Security State that is committed to perpetual war, in a consumerism that reduces everything and everyone to a commodity. As a consequence, children become statistics for sales reports, military recruitment, prison population, and debt. It is, among us, all about subordinating the future of children to the success of market ideology wherein the money and power flow to the top of the pyramid while increasing numbers of children are left behind.

The economic effects of minimum wage legislation have been analyzed in numerous statistical studies.[44] While there is a debate over the magnitude of the effects, the weight of research by academic scholars points to the conclusion that unemployment for some population groups is directly related to legal minimum wages and that the unemployment effects of the minimum wage law are felt disproportionately by nonwhites.