Quotes About Population

They will still be distributed around the true coefficient for the whole population, but the shape of that distribution will not be our familiar bell-shaped normal curve.

Instead, we have to assume that repeated samples of just 25 will produce more dispersion around the true population coefficient—and therefore a distribution with "fatter tails.

For large samples, we can assume that the standard deviation of the sample is reasonably close to the standard deviation of the population.*

Totalitarian states use propaganda to orchestrate historical amnesia, a state-induced stupidity. The object is to make sure the populace does not remember what it means to be free. And once a population does not remember what it means to be free, it does not react when freedom is stripped from it.

traditional evangelicals." This group, which Green estimates at 12.6 percent of the population, comes "closest to the 'religious right' widely discussed in the media." It is overwhelmingly Republican. It is openly hostile to democratic pluralism, and it champions totalitarian policies, such as denying homosexuals the same rights as other Americans and amending the Constitution to make America a "Christian nation.

It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.

Leveraging cloud, mobility, you process things in a different way. For example, in insurance, you can access more claims through cloud, which makes a big difference in emerging markets, where the populations are large.

London is a modern Babylon.

As more people live longer, we can expect there to be additional costs for society.

We know that 10 million more people will lose insurance in the next 10 years if we don't act.

With fewer resources to share around more people, how can the poor have improved lifestyles?

there were numerous black-owned businesses in Harlem—the majority of which were owned by blacks from the Caribbean, not blacks from the American South, who were the majority population of Harlem.174

Adam Smith declared "the good temper and moderation of contending factions" to be "the most essential circumstance in the public morals of a free people."51 But what good temper or moderation can be expected when a major segment of the population becomes convinced that "the system is rigged" against them and morality is just a giant fraud?

By 1912, the British Empire had a population of more than 440 million people, of whom only 10 percent lived in the British Isles.41

Census taking is among the oldest ways of collecting statistics. Much newer, but with similar aspirations to reach everyone, is "big data." Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger of Oxford's Internet Institute, and coauthor of the book Big Data, told me that his favored definition of a big dataset is one where "N = All"—where we no longer have to sample, because we have the entire background population.[18

We are failing our populations if we do not look at the association between obesity and diabetes and the introduction of those dietary guidelines,' Harcombe told the hearing. If anyone is giving unconventional, unscientific advice, she said, it is not Noakes. It is more likely those who slavishly recommend the country's food-based dietary guidelines to people with obesity, diabetes, heart disease and other serious health issues.

cancer was essentially unheard of in populations eating their traditional diets. Even the mid-Victorian English did not suffer greatly from cancer (Figure 16.7 on page 324). That is why cancer is considered to be a disease of 'civilization'.

most of the inhabitants of Dirt were crowded into a pawful of major cities, while most of the surfaces of the main land masses were barely inhabited at all.

civilization—a word that simply means living in cities... Excerpt From: Standage, Tom. "A History of the World In 6 Glasses.

Make no mistake, the privatization of prisons is less about unburdening taxpayers than it is about providing bankrupt communities with sources of income and especially about providing corporations with a captured population available for unpaid labor.

This leveling process, whereby the native population of central and Eastern Europe took the place of the banished minorities, was Hitler's most enduring contribution to European social history.

In Hungary, during the years 1948–53, about one million people (of a total population of less than ten million) are estimated to have suffered arrest, prosecution, imprisonment or deportation. One Hungarian family in three was directly affected.

Without doubt, there's a greater proportion of psychopathic big-hitters in the corporate world than there are in the general population. You'll find them in any organisation where your position and status afford you power and control over others, and the chance of material gain.

Oklahoma lingered so long as a territory because of who lived there. The familiar image of territories as "empty" lands awaiting enough inhabitants to sustain a government is badly misleading. The reason Congress held territories back from statehood wasn't that no one lived in them but because the wrong people did.