Statistics Quotes - Page 34

• Who says there's an unemployment problem in this country? Just take the five percent unemployed and give them a baseball stat to follow.

  Andy Van Slyke

  Baseball, Country, Giving

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• Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Strong, Children, People

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.76

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• Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Brother, Business, Half

  Edward Dahlberg (1968). “The Carnal Myth: A Search Into Classical Sensuality”, New York : Weybright and Talley

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• There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic.

  Michael Lewis

  Intelligent, Use, Has Beens

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• There are over 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country, and statistics have shown that the recidivism rate for those criminals is high.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Country, Sex, Criminals

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• To tell you the truth, I've never weighed myself. When somebody asks me my statistics or whatever I honestly don't know.

  Helena Christensen

  Truth, Ask Me, Honestly

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• Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

  Dennis Prager

  Taken, Order, Things In Life

  Dennis Prager (2009). “Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!

  Jack Paar

  Kids, People, Interesting

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• I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

  Alan Shepard

  Thinking, Odds, Survival

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• Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities.

  Leonard Woodcock

  Spring, Cost Of Living, Cities

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• They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

  Mike Schmidt

  Sports, Roots, Giving

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• And what is the Republican solution to these outrageous [racial] inequalities? There isn't one. And that's the point. Denying racism is the new racism. To not acknowledge those statistics, to think of that as a 'black problem' and not an American problem. To believe, as a majority of FOX viewers do, that reverse-racism is a bigger problem than racism, that's racist.

  Bill Maher

  Believe, Thinking, Racism

  "Bill Maher: 'Denying Racism Is The New Racism'", www.realclearpolitics.com. October 7, 2011.

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• I thing for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. You see the statistics, and the dropoff on the second and third [films] , are dire.

  Ava DuVernay

  Issues, Female, Film

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• Statistics are for losers.

  Scotty Bowman

  Work, Ministry, Loser

  Sports Illustrated A Lot More Where They Come From April 2, 1973

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• I really don't care much about baseball, or looking at ball games, major or minor. All my interest in baseball is in its statistics.

  Ernest Lanigan

  Baseball, Games, Balls

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• You're trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don't know these people, you don't know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts to nothing more than speculation.

  Marc Racicot

  People, Trying, Results

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• 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.

  Hjalmar Schacht

  Effort, Energy, Ministry

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• Statistics are the lifeblood of baseball. In no other sport are so many available and studied so assiduously by participants and fans. Much of the game's appeal, as a conversation piece, lies in the opportunity the fan gets to back up opinions and arguments with convincing figures, and it is entirely possible that more American boys have mastered long division by dealing with batting averages than in any other way.

  Leonard Koppett

  Sports, Baseball, Lying

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• However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.

  Bob Filner

  California, Might, Today

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• The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.

  Michel de Certeau

  Real, Media, Opposites

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.185, Univ of California Press

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• 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.

  Robert Sternberg

  Kids, Math, Groups

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• 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.

  Gerald Caiafa

  Song, Looks, Records

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• Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sarcastic, Food, Science

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• We measure areas of performance that are often ignored: jumping in pursuit of every rebound even if you don't get it, swatting at every pass, diving for loose balls, letting someone smash into you in order to draw the foul. These 'effort' statistics are also stored on computer. Effort is what ultimately separates journeyman players from impact players. Knowing how well a player executes all these little things is the key to unlocking career-best performances.

  Pat Riley

  Sports, Player, Knowing

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• The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

  Robert Coveyou

  Learning, Numbers, Important

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