Quotes About Statistics

Between 6 and 8 percent of pigs die before they are trucked from the factory farm to slaughter. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, about 123 million pigs were slaughtered in 2006. That means 7 to 10 million died on their own before we could kill them.

In my quest to become unique, I've become a statistic.

And to come back to the economy for a moment, the lifetime distribution of firms is also a power law. Now

Sod the Office for bloody Statistics and sod the Guardian. It's indulgent Guardian-reading parents like us who've mollycoddled our kids since they were born who are responsible for all this. We've infantilized them, turned them into these delicate flowers who are too scared to go out into the world and get their hands dirty. Ben needs to find a job. Any job. That's all there is to it.

When New York City created a special Rape Analysis Squad commanded by police- women, the female police officers found that only 2 percent of all rape complaints were false—about the same false-report rate that is usual for other kinds of felonies. (a a talk given by Judge Lawrence H. Cooke before the Association of the Bar of the City of New York)

The lifetime likelihood of imprisonment for white women is 1 in 118; for black women, it's 1 in 19.

The number of children under age eighteen with a mother in prison has more than doubled since 1991. Approximately 10 million American children have or have had a parent in prison.

I think I'm being conservative when I say there are more people playing soccer in the United States than in 90% of the world's other countries, probably 95%.

I've written about how mortality is a wonderful indicator of societal progress.

I have sold 120 million records. Half of those could be in Europe.

We sold 1.5 million copies of the 'Abracadabra' album and 26,000 copies of 'Italian X-Rays.'

Today, Latvian women have become the tallest women in the world, jumping from about five foot one to five foot seven. Dutch men rose from five foot seven in 1860 to just over six feet tall, making them the tallest men on Earth.

By one estimate, genealogy has now become the second-most-popular search topic on the Internet. It is outranked only by porn.

To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.

Who said anything about hospitals? That's where people die. Hospitals are statistically the most dangerous places in the world.

Las estadísticas lo demuestran: más gente muere en la cama que en la trinchera.

Statistics show that well over half the married couples in our culture divorce, and many of those who stick it out do so for reasons other than personal happiness—because it's such a hassle dividing everything, moving, having to start over—not to mention children and the emotional and financial aspects of splitting up.

Women who have abortions are people you know. Because that is the truth! One in three American women will have an abortion by menopause.

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?

It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.

As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.

22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush.

Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS.