You can shape statistics to make them look however you want them to.
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.
It’s the media who love statistics.
Service learning connects classroom studies to real-world issues, with hands-on activities and problem solving. Youth can study biology and ecology by testing the water in their own community; or learn about statistics, calculating the food supply and usage at the local food bank.
! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large.
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they’re okay, then it’s you.
The economy should serve man, not statistics.
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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.
We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.
He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.
I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences.
I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics.
We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important.
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.
The Democrats’ response throughout the healthcare debate? Give the people more statistics.
You can have really good statistics, which are really good, and it’s a serious advantage, but when push comes to shove, it’s about players communicating and players playing together.
I really started to forget things. That’s why I quit reciting statistics: because I couldn’t remember them exactly, and I stayed away from mentioning some players by name because I really wasn’t sure, and I didn’t want to make a mistake.
Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully 93 percent of additional income gains coming out of the recession went straight into the wallets and purses of the top 1 percent.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
In Chicagoland, they had afternoon ‘Jeopardy!’ and afternoon Cubs games when they were at home, so that was basically what I would watch and it’s what got me interested in Jeopardy! and sports statistics at an early age.
It’s often the case that great artists – people like Bruce Springsteen – tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound social change long before the economic statisticians notice them. Changes start long before they become statistics.
Statistics are just a compilation of people’s stories put on paper, and legislation is our attempt to address those real challenges for people.
I realise that certain actors project their own image onto the screen – those who are the same on as they are off. But I’ve never had the necessary statistics to be able to do that sort of thing, and so, anyway, I always wanted to be a character actor.
We all know that Americans love their statistics – in sport, obviously. And in finance too.
I’m no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I’m part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well.
There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
Statistics on religious affiliation are notoriously slippery: the government isn’t allowed to gather such data, and the membership claims of religious organizations aren’t entirely reliable.
If you look at the statistics, it’s a lot more dangerous to ride down a highway than a big wave.
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.
Along with all the other stunning statistics China can provide, it can also claim to be the world leader in making energy from human excrement. Biogas, as this energy is known, can be produced from the fermentation of any organic material, from wood to vegetables to human excreta.
I had games where I had better statistics than others, but it wasn’t because I wasn’t playing hard.
I think it can be really powerful, and one of the reasons I love making films is I do feel they can reach beyond the statistics and the numbers and the complexities of a particular issue and really highlight the humanity in a way that an article or newspaper story might not be able to do.
Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.
There are games where the striker will be useful for the team in terms of creating space and being involved in the game, without necessarily scoring, but he’ll have played an important role for the team. But, of course, over the course of a season, I have to score goals, as that’s what statistics reflect.
The statistics show that when you’ve done something for so long, it’ll either be, yeah, you’re slowing down, or someone’s doing it better. But physically, I feel great. More than that, it’s mental and spiritual.
Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It’s blood and tears.
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.
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
It’s easy to get good table talk going if you have a little help in the form of questions, games, newspaper articles, books with fun statistics, things like that.
All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians’ warning that correlation is not causation.
Aggregate statistics can sometimes mask important information.
I don’t really care about statistics from other attackers.
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
You know, I think I’m the worst player to talk to about statistics.
Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.
How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you’re a dead man? You go to work.
Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.
I’m a massive football fan, so when Ladbrokes approached me and asked me to take a look at the statistics, I jumped at the chance.
From what I can tell, pollsters are generally fairly stick-to-the-facts folks. They deal in facts and statistics.
Personally, I don’t focus much about the statistics of goals and assists. I always want to improve, but I’m not worried about statistics.
In 2013, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, around 64 percent of mothers with children under six worked.
When you get John McCain going about the war against terror, he comes alive. That’s when it gets fun. He rattles off the statistics, he showcases his wealth of military experience, and he doesn’t recognize the concepts of defeat or surrender.
In 1973, I was offered a professorship at the University of California, San Diego. Although I was certainly not unhappy at Nottingham, I had been there over twenty years from starting undergraduate studies to Professor of Applied Statistics and Econometrics, and I thought that a change of scene was worth considering.
I honestly don’t care about individual awards or statistics.
Statistics is the grammar of science.
Between 1950 and 1951, I worked as a temporary employee in the Cologne Bureau of Statistics. From summer 1951 on, I have lived as a freelance writer with a fixed postal address in Cologne but with a continually shifting place of work.
Statistics are easy to remove ourselves from. A story, you are implicated in, and you have to choose what side you are going to be on.
People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I’ve seen statistics that are just staggering.
Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.
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.
