There are over 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country, and statistics have shown that the recidivism rate for those criminals is high.
In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.
Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
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.
I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that.
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.
Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.
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.
He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.
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?
Statistics is the grammar of science.
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!
The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.