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Last updated on April 18, 2025.
According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.
Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable circumstances and extremes.
Sometimes when you come in a team where there are a lot of big names - how can I say this? - the name plays more than the statistics.
That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said to be the statistics upon the subject.
Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.
Society and medicine treat us all as members of populations, whereas as individuals we are all unique, and population statistics do not apply.
I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios.
Have you noticed that all the news, statistics, strategies about unemployment are provided by those who are employed? As soon as you are unemployed you cease to exist.
The statistics requested respecting the number of crimes that have been solved by tracing the firearm back to the registered owner are not kept at this time and are therefore not available.
Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
Stories told around the water-cooler as well as statistics confirm that a man's competence is more likely to be presupposed, a woman's questioned.
Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
There are some scary statistics out there: one in five kids aged 10-17 have received a sexual solicitation or approach via the Internet.
Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics.
While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.
Forget the statistics...we have to do more. You cannot look these children in the eye and see how desperate is their situation without wanting to help.
Political linguists have argued that the right often uses stories to make an argument, while the left falls back on facts and statistics.
We've all heard these statistics that teachers at times go into their pockets in the tune of several hundred dollars a year to pay for school supplies and materials. It's not normal.
With those kinds of statistics, there are real concerns that cannot be explained away other than race. How long do we turn a blind eye to it?.
Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.
Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death.
Refuse the council of despair! Don't live by the statistics, live according to the prophetic word!
If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it's one of my favorite places to renovate.
To tell you the truth, I've never weighed myself. When somebody asks me my statistics or whatever I honestly don't know.
A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".
People in Midland are real nice folks: I can't prove that with statistics, but I know West Texas, and it's just a fact.
If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.
Math is a language that you use to describe statistics, but really it's about collecting information and putting it in an order that makes sense.
I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.
Statistics can be so misleading. It is funny, though, how often at the moment you see one team had 60 per cent of the ball but still lost.
When you boil down the real facts and statistics of what carbon dioxide is doing to this planet... to not feel like you have to do something... I don't think you're human.
It stands, essentially, for the application of increased energy to the efforts already undertaken by my ministry since 1934 with the results shown in the above statistics.
Every month, we get the reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that say even more people have given up looking for work.
Moneyball' doesn't have anything to do with on-base percentage or statistics. It's a constant investigation of stagnant systems, to see if you can find value where it isn't readily apparent.
Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.
Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment.
I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for illumination.
! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large.
The most crazed religious fanatic argues in more calm and reasoned tones than liberals responding to statistics on concealed-carry permits.
Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.
Even more important than statistics is then having the staff that can take the data and ensure it's presented in a way that improves individuals and teams.
Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics.
According to statistics, it's a lot easier to get hit by lightning than to win a Lotto jackpot. The good side: you don't hear from your relatives.
According to statistics, one person out of five is disturbed. If there are four people around you who seem normal, that's not good.
it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.
Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.
I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well.
I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.
Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about "character issues."
For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.
Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is to have a Senate committee appointed to look into it.
There are over 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country, and statistics have shown that the recidivism rate for those criminals is high.
We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication.
Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of natural phenomena.
Baseball's rich in wonderful statistics, but it's hard to find one more beautiful than Stan Musial's hitting record. He didn't care where he was, he just hit.
Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.
Statistics were magic like this: they could tell you with near-certainty that a thing would occur, without a hint of when or where.
[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.
For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.
Despite great advances in women's rights, statistics show that when it comes to the balance of power between the sexes, equality is far from being a global reality.
