But at West Point the debate is personal, and a decade of statistics — more than 6,000 American service members dead in Iraq and Afghanistan and more than $1 trillion spent — hit home.
"Argo" and "Zero Dark" did; their fans may hope that's enough for either movie to play against decades of Oscar statistics and buck the rule that no best director = no best picture.
But I have the idea that if they have a proper road map and know what the global realities are, they'll make better decisions".The realities that Dr Rosling is trying to highlight have been gleaned from decades of studying statistics.
For decades, the majority of statistics in basketball, baseball and other sports were concerned with offensive skills because things like hits, home runs and three-point shots were the easiest to quantify.
Mr. Vines said a decade of accident statistics compiled by the government showed that the Explorer "has been and continues to be one of the safest vehicles on the road".
Using the CIA's The World Factbook and other government publications, she gathered sex ratio data for every nation with a decade of uninterrupted statistics.
The NIH researchers sifted through a decade of drinking statistics from between 2002 and 2012, and found that the percentage of women who drank alcohol in the past month leapt from 40 to 48percentt, while the equivalent statistic for men dropped down to 56percentt from the previous 57.4.
After analyzing decades of national mortality statistics, federal researchers reported last year that exceptional thinness, a logical consequence of calorie restriction, was associated with an increased risk of death.
"The cinematic clarity of Gardiner's descriptions of accidents and ceremonies tells more about the decade than a page of statistics".
In 2002, a group of posters at the Web site baseballthinkfactory.org decided to select an alternative Hall of Fame, choosing its inductees with the benefit of three decades of advances in baseball statistics that were unavailable for most of the actual Hall's existence.
