Quotes About Statistics

I feel like a fugitive from th' law of averages.

In fact, total global rainfall is now increasing 1.5 percent a decade.

Last year, the USDA said for the first time in 150 years that there were more farms in America instead of fewer. I think that's the single most hopeful statistic I know.

Of the 9,600,000 Jews who lived in Nazi-dominated Europe, 60 percent are authoritatively estimated to have perished. Five million seven hundred thousand Jews are missing from the countries in which they formerly lived, and over 4,500,000 cannot be accounted for by the normal death rate nor by immigration; nor are they included among displaced persons.

In total, as of this writing in October 2015, there have been 972 mass shootings since the Sandy Hook murders, resulting in at least 1,217 people dead and 3,509 wounded.

Is it reasonable for a man to average 50.4 points a game while finishing second in the MVP voting? It is not. But this is Wilt's legacy (and it always will be).

his 1999–2000 season (24–7–9, 153 steals, 45 percent FG, 82 games, 3,425 minutes) ranks in the pantheon of Greatest Point Guard Seasons Ever Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Hearing the statistic that one in four children in Scotland suffer from poverty just made me think that if there is even a tiny thing I could do that would help then it was totally worthwhile.

I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.

If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.

The most interesting statistic, stunning statistic that came out of my research was that in 1942, as this war production effort is going on, the number of Americans killed or injured in war-related industries surpassed the number of Americans in uniform killed and wounded in action in the war by a factor of 20 to 1.

Het Smolensk-archief heeft duidelijk gemaakt in welke mate elk onderzoek van deze periode uit de Russische geschiedenis blijvend gehinderd zal worden door het ontbreken van de meest elementaire documenten en statistieken. [...]Kortom, we leren niets uit de organisatiestructuur van het regime, terwijl we daar in het geval van nazi-Duitsland zeer goed over geïnformeerd zijn.

At the end of the day, the numbers that we're hearing are not going to be totally correct or not correct at all.

On our show, I've only reached out and touched about 55 guys. I think there's still about 40 million.

I'm no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I'm part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well.

You get nit-picked in the media. Stats are always up saying he doesn't drive it straight enough or hit enough greens or whatever it is. Then you have to perform, because if you don't perform, then you're off the Tour.

People assume that because I'm a girl and my blog is hot pink that my readership is 90% women, but it's not. It's probably only about 65%. When I do tours, it's pretty much the same thing: it's about one-third guys.

Usually, my track record's pretty good with guys on base.

If crime is going down, you shouldn't be increasing resources for crime prevention. Or you should be taking note of what has worked and concentrate the crime-prevention methods on policies that have a track record of success.

We need no elaborate statistical proof that trade depends on prosperity in the industrial countries.

Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.

The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.

If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.