Quotes About Statistics

From a typical McDonald's meal] this is how the laboratory measured our meal: soda (100%), milk shake (78%), salad dressing (65%), chicken nuggets (56%), cheeseburger (52%), and French fries (23%).

In one analysis, a typical American population that departed even modestly from the Western diet (and lifestyle) could reduce its chances of getting coronary heart disease by 80 percent, its chances of type 2 diabetes by 90 percent, and its chances of colon cancer by 70 percent.

It's nonsense. If, in fact, putting one out of four people in the state of Kentucky on Medicaid created 12,000 jobs and $30 billion in economic prosperity, why wouldn't we put every single person in the state of Kentucky on Medicaid? We'd create 48,000 jobs by that logic and $120 billion worth of economic advantage.

Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.'

Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone.

Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.

On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.

I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.

Polls? Nah... they're for strippers and cross country skiers.

We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.

I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy.

But 62 percent of White women without college degrees voted for Trump

the Muslim population in the US is approximately 3.3 million, the majority of whom are US-born.

In 2013 more than 40 percent of adoptions in the US were transracial in nature, up from 28 percent in 2004.

six largest groups by country of origin are Chinese Americans, Filipino Americans, Indian Americans, Vietnamese Americans, Korean Americans, and Japanese Americans, together representing 83 percent of the total Asian population in the US.5

There are thousands of things that can kill us—slightly more than eight thousand, according to the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems compiled by the World Health Organization—and we escape every one of them but one. For most of us, that's not a bad deal.

Look, if you draw a two thousand-mile-long line across the United States at any angle, it's going to pass through nine murder victims.

According to Time Out magazine, at any given moment there are 600,000 people on the Underground, making it both a larger and more interesting place than Oslo.

Australians are the biggest gamblers on the planet – one of the more arresting statistics I saw was that the country has less than 1 per cent of the world's population but more than 20 per cent of its slot machines

In nearly every year for at least 250 years, deaths outnumbered births in London.

Bayes's theorem and that looks like this: People who understand Bayes's theorem can use it to work out complex problems involving probability distributions—or inverse probabilities, as they are sometimes called.

In the 1960s, the Stanford historian Peter Laslett did a careful study of British marriage records and found that at no time in the recorded past did people regularly marry at very early ages. Between 1619 and 1660, for instance, 85 percent of women were nineteen

Water is everywhere. A potato is 80 percent water, a cow 74 percent, a bacterium 75 percent. A tomato, at 95 percent, is little but water. Even humans are 65 percent water, making us more liquid than solid by a margin of almost two to one.

Of the total surface area of Earth, Britain occupies just 0.0174069 per cent.