At a local media conference in April 2011, a Yellow Pages exec showed a statistic that proved a handy selling point: 62% of Yellow Pages users visited the site searching for a menu.
As long as this statistic is being touted as a scientifically proven fact, we have a problem.
Here's why it all matters: As long as this statistic is being touted as a scientifically proven fact, we have a problem.
For Walmart.com, Target.com and other retail sites trying to play catch-up with Amazon, the "conversion rate" of Prime shoppers — that is, the percentage browsing online who actually buy something — may prove a sobering statistic.
But their tally of just 19 points from their final 14 games proved a telling statistic as they let third place, which they had held for a large part of the season, slip out of their grasp.
Even with advance warning of a crackdown, 104 of the 1,200 or so tests proved positive, a statistic that surpassed the 5% threshold, demonstrating how widespread the problem was and/or how stupid many of the players were.
Statistical analysis (Table 5) of the coefficient for each genetic reservoir units analyzed has proven that the sample statistic is statistically significant and therefore the test's null hypothesis is rejected based on an α-value of 0.05.
In recent years a few rich-world leaders have pushed efforts to study whether a happiness statistic could prove useful.
And here is a scary statistic to prove it -- nearly 80percentt of drivers expressed significant anger, aggression, or road rage behind the wheel.
This is a great boom'?" One statistic proving particularly perplexing is the percentage of the adult population that is employed.
Furthermore, Pgpd based on the transformed statistic proved to be a better estimate with much less variance (Fig. 5).
