Sentence examples for absurd statistic from inspiring English sources
When we read about cheating scandals in colleges and high schools and the absurd statistic that nearly 20percentt of high school boys now have a diagnosis of ADHD, we can all become cynical about mental illness.
But the comparison is absurd; the statistic measures a population of professional pilots who undergo mandatory recurrent training twice per year, who fly highly sophisticated machines with triple redundancies and multiple jet engines, with two pilots in the cockpit, supported by an army of mechanics and a massive ground crew feeding them information on weather, routing, and airport conditions.
To demonstrate how ridiculous market predictors can be, a gentleman named David Leinweber decided he could prove a point with butter production in Bangladesh: After casting about to find a statistic so absurd that no sensible person could possibly believe it could forecast U.S. stock prices, Mr. Leinweber settled on annual butter production in Bangladesh.
AHIP likes to talk about how insurance profits are a small share of national health spending -- less then one penny of every dollar spent on health care in the U.S. -- but that is an absurd, deceptive and self-serving statistic.
Key statistic: Chargers tight end Antonio Gates is on pace for an absurd 1,544 yards and 24 touchdowns this season.
Statistic after statistic after statistic.
