Quotes About Trends

La irreligiosidad es una consecuencia natural de la riqueza y la educación.

half of American eighteen-year-olds do not have a driver's license.

That tells us that the most damaging kinds of lethal violence (at least from 1820 to 1952) were murders and world wars; all the other kinds of quarrels killed far fewer people.

Forty years ago two-thirds of children walked or biked to school; today 10 percent do. A generation ago 70 percent of children played outside; today the rate is down to 30 percent.209

The data are not entombed in dry reports but are displayed in gorgeous Web sites, particularly Max Roser's Our World in Data, Marian Tupy's HumanProgress, and Hans Rosling's Gapminder.

The peak age of poisoning deaths in 2011 was around fifty, up from the low forties in 2003, the late thirties in 1993, the early thirties in 1983, and the early twenties in 1973.57 Do the subtractions and you find that in every decade it's the members of the generation born between 1953 and 1963 who are drugging themselves to death.

The pattern remains—globalization helped the lower and middle classes of poor countries, and the upper class of rich countries, much more than it helped the lower middle class of rich countries—but the differences are less extreme.

If you ignore all the years in which an indicator of some problem declines, and report every uptick (since, after all, it's "news"), readers will come away with the impression that life is getting worse and worse even as it gets better and better. In the first six months of 2016 the New York Times pulled this trick three times, with figures for suicide, longevity, and automobile fatalities.

changes that take place on the time scale of journalism will always show ups and downs.

Also, as Nils Petter Gleditsch and Halvard Buhaug have pointed out, even though an increasing proportion of the world's armed conflicts have involved Islamic countries and insurgencies over the past two decades (from 20 to 38 percent), it's not because those conflicts have increased in number.

I check Style.com to look at the collections and love to poke around some of the other fashion blogs to see what's going on.

I love shopping! I'm impatient though. I'll go to the mall and in 30 minutes be ready to go.

I'm definitely curious. I love pop culture. I'm glued to it. I can watch garbage TV, but then I can also watch great theater.

I live in L.A., so layers are essential to my wardrobe. I like slim silhouettes, typically, and I love good tailoring.

I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.

When I was a kid, I was trendier. I'd wear anything. I was in love beads and platforms...

I love how pop culture shapes a generation. The trends, fashion and events all play a key part in how we live our present lives, and will mark how we will be remembered in the future.

I love hats, shoes, outfits, handbags, and ethnic jewelery.

Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the force of imitation.

I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion.

En términos estadísticos, los niños de dos años son las personas más violentas que existen.

That's how the Law of Large Numbers works: not by balancing out what's already happened, but by diluting what's already happened with new data, until the past is so proportionally negligible that it can safely be forgotten.

scientists and statisticians have already been worrying about them for quite some time.

Statistics is not an exact science. It is an investigative technique.