Sentence examples for a statistical fantasy from inspiring English sources

Geoscientist David Hughes, who worked for the Geological Survey of Canada for 32 years, said: "The oil had always been a statistical fantasy.

In fact, the political centre-ground is for the most part a statistical fantasy: it's what happens when you take an average of two highly polarised groups and find it somewhere in the middle, whether or not anyone actually lives there.

For the uninitiated, fantasy football is a statistical competition in which participants draft real-life N.F.L. players to fill imaginary teams.

This shift is away from the brain as a passive filter of sensations towards a view of the brain as a statistical organ that generates hypotheses or fantasies (from Greek phantastikos, the ability to create mental images, from phantazesthai), which are tested against sensory evidence (Gregory, 1968).

Last month, Jennings moved from Denver to Boston to join StarStreet, a daily fantasy start-up, as a statistical analyst.

Or would Peterson, the consensus No. 1 fantasy draft pick, channel his anger, confusion and grief into a statistical day for the ages?

A statistical snapshot.

A statistical adjustment, perhaps?

A statistical blip, he suggests.

A statistical inevitability.

He's a statistical aberration".