Quotes About Statistics

Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice as much soda as milk.

Americans already drink soda at an annual rate of about fifty-six gallons per person – that's nearly six hundred twelve-ounce cans of soda per person.

Your chances of winning the Powerball lottery are far better than finding a hash collision. After all, lotteries often have actual winners. The probability of a hash collision is more like a lottery that has been running since prehistoric times and has never had a winner and will probably not have a winner for billions of years.

The mathematics of probability enters when we seek a method for enumerating possible cases without actually counting them off

Statistically, half of all humans are below median intelligence and easily led astray by the ten percent who combine above average intelligence with a defective sense of ethics.

medical harm as one of the top three killers in the United States.

440,000 lethal, preventable events each year from care in hospitals, or "roughly one-sixth of all deaths that occur in the United States each year.

I still find it remarkable that Americans today will, on the average, spend more years of their adult life single than married.

The deepening slump was evident not only in government statistics but also in what we were hearing from business and community leaders around the country.

setting aside the most volatile prices leads to better predictions of overall inflation.

The initial August report showed a complete stall in job growth.

The unemployment rate, after its encouraging drop early in the year, would stagnate near 9 percent into the fall

Relative to the enormous size of the mortgage market, the number seemed small to me.

They flattened out in 2006 but did not decline much initially

in part because financial crises are (fortunately) rare enough that relevant data are scarce.

By 1980 8.2% of American suburbanites (7.4 million people) lived below the poverty line; over the next two decades the figure doubled, meaning that impoverished suburbanites outnumbered poor people in the inner city. Murders fell in American cities by 16.7% but rose by 16.9% in the suburbs.

by 2025, 440 cities with a collective population of 600 million (7% of all people) will account for half of worldwide gross domestic product.

There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Early coronavirus fatality rates as often cited may appear worse than they actually are for a majority of the public because they do not include the many undiagnosed, asymptomatic cases; and because they do not reflect the dramatically elevated risk for the elderly compared to the rest of the population.

Blacks were more likely to be sentenced to prison following a conviction, but that result reflected their past crimes and the gravity of their current offense.

Police reform is working, and crime is falling.

Anytime you give up two special-teams touchdowns, I can't imagine the numbers are too good in regards to winning that game.

A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region.