#statistic

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. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#collapse #coming #covering #economic #financial

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

#areas #been #big #california #case

We were not given any statistics as to how many records were pressed on the blue label. I used to ask Bob Shad how we were going to get paid from record sales and what I got for an answer was not to worry about the business end of the deal. ↗

— Phil Harris

#answer #any #ask #blue #bob

Statistics is the grammar of science. ↗

— Karl Pearson

#science #statistics

I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity. ↗

— George Gallup

#body #chances #could #functions #god

Another mistaken notion connected with the law of large numbers is the idea that an event is more or less likely to occur because it has or has not happened recently. The idea that the odds of an event with a fixed probability increase or decrease depending on recent occurrences of the event is called the gambler's fallacy. For example, if Kerrich landed, say, 44 heads in the first 100 tosses, the coin would not develop a bias towards the tails in order to catch up! That's what is at the root of such ideas as "her luck has run out" and "He is due." That does not happen. For what it's worth, a good streak doesn't jinx you, and a bad one, unfortunately , does not mean better luck is in store. ↗

— Leonard Mlodinow

#luck #math #probability #statistics #math

Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics. ↗

— Ernie Banks

#baseball #lot #me #mean #more

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. ↗

— Mark Twain

#more #pliable #statistics #stubborn

Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.' ↗

— George Brett

#around #ball game #baseball #baseball game #before

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#difficult #explain #improbable #more #nature