Quotes About Statistics

The second thing that can be said with regard to life expectancy is that it is not a good idea to be an American.

There were 212 people in Stockholm named Erik Eriksson, 117 named Sven Svensson, 126 named Nils Nilsson, and 259 named Lars Larsson

Tip: Whenever you see some number of tons of greenhouse gases, convert it to a percentage of 51 billion, which is the world's current yearly total emissions (in carbon dioxide equivalents).

That's nearly 600 pounds for every person in the country. And we're not even the biggest consumers of the stuff—that would be China, which installed more concrete in the first 16 years of the 21st century than the United States did in the entire 20th century!

All told, fertilizers were responsible for roughly 1.3 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions in 2010, and the number will probably rise to 1.7 billion tons by mid-century

Nuclear power kills far, far fewer people than cars do. For that matter, it kills far fewer people than any fossil fuel.

But Germany produced about 10 times more solar in June 2018 than it did in December 2018.

celebrity. The number one topic on network evening newscasts for the decade was crime, even though crime rates nationally were plummeting during the period.

Did you know that the United States is ranked fiftieth in the world in life expectancy? And the forty-nine loser countries where they live longer than us...they live shackled to the tyranny of nonprofit health care. Here in America, you're not coughing up blood, little Bobby, you're coughing up freedom!

you are what your record says you are

d.c. is the nation's capital. It also leads the country in murder

Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, called JOLTS, conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

I always thought that explained it: the romance is a reaction from the algebra. I never knew a person connected with mathematics or astronomy or statistics, or any of those exact things, who didn't have a crazy streak in 'em SOMEwhere.

Throughout the long four years of the Civil War, more Americans will die than in any other war in the nation's history—in fact, more Americans will die in the Civil War than in every other war combined from the American Revolution through the Korean War, including both World Wars. On average, nearly 3,500 lives are lost every week

Our paper is very fibrous, and it doesn't take much for things to get embedded in those fibers. The best example would be cocaine. According to statistics, trace amounts of cocaine are believed to infect four out of every five bills in circulation. – Scot Harvath

Although pigs are generally good-natured, more people are killed each year by pigs than by sharks.

Japan has the oldest population in the world, and the Japanese go to the doctor more than anybody—about fourteen office visits per year, compared with five for the average American. And yet Japan spends about $3,400 per person on health care each year; we burn through $7,400 per person.

But out of twenty-three wealthy countries, the American health care system ranks dead last when it comes to keeping newborns alive.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

Tampoco hay que despreciar el hecho que el índice de crecimiento demográfico es tanto más elevado cuanto más se desciende en la escala social, lo que constituye un factor suplementario de regresión.

Inflation had risen to the unimaginable figure of just over 100,000 percent by the end of 1947--and it was to go to 2,870,000 percent by the end of 1948...

Today, you're more likely to drown in a swimming pool than die a violent death. That's a luxury no one outside this generation has ever known.1

A hundred years ago, our ancestors could expect fewer than fifty birthdays—and even that was nearly twenty more than the global average. In 2010, the worldwide average had risen to 67.2 years, and even 78.2 years in the United States. That

Numbers have always been massive to me. I was told at an early age that if you affect the game, and if your numbers are good in terms of goals, assists, chances created, the manager finds it hard to bring you off or to not involve you.