Quotes About Statistics

In the United States, normal arose within a cultural context as the nation sought to control a growing urban population and Americanize immigrants from around the world. Normalcy, though, is first and foremost an idea that arises from statistics. The normal, norm, or normalcy do not exist in the real world of real people [emphasis mine], despite the fact that we are told that we can modify our behavior and train our bodies and minds to reach it.

Botched abortions are the largest single cause of death of pregnant women in the United States, particularly among nonwhite women. In 1964, the president of the New York County Medical Society, Dr. Carl Goldmark, estimated that 80 percent of the deaths of gravid women in Manhattan were from this cause.

In shipping, for example, injury counts were halved over a recent decade, but the number of shipping accidents tripled

No matter how significant the numbers are according to their own logic, statistics fail to convey the true, lived meaning of the suffering they contain and can thus leave us numbly indifferent.

Apparently the Germans had a database of 13,000 kicks.

In 2017, three academics—Christian Deutscher, Eugen Dimant, and Brad Humphreys—caused uproar in the German parliament when they published a working paper claiming to have statistical evidence that there were irregular betting patterns associated with two Bundesliga referees officiating between 2011 and 2015.

The problem is that there is a lot of randomness in results in the short term. The underlying patterns can only be identified once you let the law of large numbers do its work.

His doubts recall Benford's Law, a theory about the frequency with which digits will appear in data. One implication of this law is that datasets with lots of zeroes at the end often turn out to be fraudulent.

125.00% Mean     149.17% Standard Deviation     43.47%

Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class - Hope your surgery went well!

The percentage of couples who stay together after high school is, like, less than five percent, you guys.

I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that.

Hanna had no use for statistics, I soon realized that. She let me deliver a whole lecture—in the bathroom—about statistics, and at the end all she said was: "Your bath is getting cold.

There could be between 10,000 and 13,000 victims of slavery in the UK, higher than previous figures, analysis for the Home Office suggests.

After all," he may say, "the rules you have outlined are pretty simple and easygoing. A highly trained analyst ought to be able to use all his skill and techniques to improve substantially on something as obvious as the Dow Jones list. If not, what good are all his statistics, calculations, and pontifical judgments?

Much is made of black-on-black crime—the common assertion that a high percentage of black people commit crimes against other blacks. But what is often left out are statistics about white-on-white crime, which is equally high. The fact is, we are largely a segregated society, and thus crimes committed in our segregated communities will more likely be committed against members of our own race.

The mark of a civilized man is the capacity to read a column of numbers and weep.

There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.

Our research led on to other things, such as the fact that exchange rates are not lognormally distributed.

In fact - statistically, as you know - people have done polls, research, and at least 80 percent or more or working media are liberal Democrats if they are involved with any party and certainly liberal in their philosophy.

It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.

It's runs for batsmen which is the criteria for selection and similarly, it is wickets for bowlers which are important.

Other surveys show the same shifts.

The world has made spectacular progress in every single measure of human well-being. Here is a second shocker: Almost no one knows about it.