Quotes About Statistics

Senator John Kyle claiming that over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is abortion. Stephen Colbert: Over 90 percent, that is unbelievable...in that it is not true. Only 3 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is abortion. Kyle just rounded it up to the nearest 90.

Divorce is a marital welfare. It's just couples asking society to bail them out because they didn't do enough research before they got married. How is that our fault? Don't drag down my country's statistics just because you ran off and got hitched before you ever saw each other in a bad mood.

There are enough guns in the United States that if you gave one to every adult, you would run out of adults before you ran out of guns

Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all general impediments to scientific literacy.

Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.

Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.

The law of probability combined with the law of large numbers states that to beat the odds, sometimes you have to repeat an event an increasing number of times in order to get you to the outcome you desire.

Statistically most relationships ended badly and, given my mental state over the past two years, my chances of beating the odds were pretty low. We could talk around it, we could lose ourselves in brief moments, but love ultimately meant more pain.

It is not clear that married people are, on average, happier than those who never married, because unhappily married people are the least happy group of all and they pull down the average.

If you find yourself in a Whole Foods store, there's an 89 percent chance that the county surrounding you voted for Barack Obama. If you want to find Republicans, go to a county that contains a Cracker Barrel restaurant (62 percent of these counties went for McCain).

Either live in thrall to statistics or make them your friends.

Nationally, 22 percent of Americans reported overdrawing their bank accounts at least once in the previous twelve months,

The most recent data available from the U.S. Census's SIPP show that 90 million people, nearly one-third of all Americans, experienced poverty for two months or more between 2009 and 2011. In contrast, just 10 million people, less than 4 percent of the population, were poor for the entire three years.

the plural of "anecdote" is "data.

According to one estimate, the amount of money needed to "compensate," statistically speaking, for a lost marriage is on the order of an extra $100,000 a year.

Persons who dismiss stories such as those of Keith John Sampson as merely "anecdotal" need to be reminded that the plural of "anecdote" is "data.

According to INTERPOL's statistics, art theft alternated between the agency's number three and four spots in priority and importance, just below drug dealing, arms smuggling, and money laundering.

In 1933 nearly 70 percent of Germany's Jews worked in business and commerce; over 30 percent lived in the city of Berlin alone; and 70 percent lived in cities with a population of over 100,000 inhabitants.

we chose our samples so that they would be truly representative of the respective population.

why be an average person? All the great achievements of history have been made by strong individuals who refused to consult statistics or to listen to those who could prove convincingly that what they wanted to do, and in fact ultimately did do, was completely impossible

billion, representing almost half of all people and the vast majority of adults on the planet.4 And they're now sending over two trillion text messages a year.

In 2011, there were over eighty-five million computerized tomography (CT) scans

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The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.