Quotes About Statistics

De acordo com os congressistas, ouvir as experiências reais de mulheres vítimas de violência era diferente de ler as estatísticas de violência contra mulheres. A peça tornou as experiências mais reais e tangíveis, estimulando-os a tomar uma atitude urgente a respeito do que tinham ouvido.

Não aguento mais que a violência contra a mulher não seja uma prioridade internacional quando uma em cada três mulheres será estuprada ou espancada ao longo da vida [...].

30% of fatal road accidents are due to alcohol; therefore 70% are due to people who don't drink!...

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

Most firearm-related deaths in America are suicides.

The truth is that others judge us. More than that, they evaluate the truth of the Gospel by what they see of our lives and our integrity. [We] must make every effort to be above all suspicion in the matter of finances and statistics. We are not only accountable to God's people, but also to our Master (see Acts 24:16).

Statistics indicate that the church is rapidly losing in the population explosion. There are fewer Christians per capita every day.

We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.

Trzeba by?o poznawa? kobiety nie przez okulary Mickiewiczów, Krasi?skich albo S?owackich, ale ze statystyki, która uczy, ?e ka?dy bia?y anio? jest w dziesi?tej cz??ci prostytutk?.

I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62 percent of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.

Have you ever heard of the law of large numbers? If you carry on betting large sums day after day, then sooner or later you are bound to win everything back." As far

A closer look at the troubling numbers reveals that blacks are dying not of exotic, incurable, poorly understood illnesses nor of genetic diseases that target only them, but rather from common ailments that are more often prevented and treated among whites than among blacks. Three

Three times as many African Americans were diagnosed with diabetes in 1993 as in 1963.

can only express a likelihood of purchase in probabilistic terms. Thus

Thirty thousand new consumer products hit store shelves each year. Ninety percent of them fail. Why? We're using misguided market-segmentation practices. For instance, we slice markets based on customer type and define the needs of representative customers in those segments. But actual human beings don't behave like statistically average customers. The

When we say that men are taller than women, the words -on average- are implied. Pointing to the existence of your friend Rhonda, who really is quite tall, does not negate the statistical truth that, on average, men are still taller than women.

Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of the data, and an illusion of precision.

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative. And you may very well make up a wrong story because you only have one fact, which is a statistic.

We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.

The Wonderful pistachios campaign is a great example - I don't involve myself with a project I don't feel passionate about. I could talk your ear off about internal statistics for WWE and what we have planned for the future. Why do I know that stuff? Because I like to do all that stuff.

With my academic achievement in high school, I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that.

There is no war on coal. Period. There are more coal jobs and more coal produced in Ohio than there were five years ago, in spite of the talking points and the yard signs.

Statistically, the teams are getting the chunk plays - the explosives - are the teams that are going produce more yards and more points.