The global statistics on the abuse of girls are numbing.
We then summarize and challenge global statistics, risk maps and burden estimates of human schistosomiasis.
The population-control efforts of the 1960s and 1970s hardly show up in global statistics.
What is surprising is that such a distortion of global statistics might be possible.
We propose and compare different strategies for collecting global statistics from distributed inverted indexes.
Advocacy organisations know this, and that's why they often chase shocking global statistics with exhortations to act locally.
Worldwide, it killed about 330,000 people in 2012, the most recent year with global statistics available.
There has been some support of this idea in lab-based studies, especially with regards to violent pornography, but global statistics are contradictory.
I've found some of the information on that particular period very conflicting and realise that not all the global statistics, or evidence, are in on that one, yet.
He's nude!'" Still – when handled with care – global statistics can help challenge common myths and misconceptions about the world, Rosling hopes.
The reader should be wary in particular of Lomborg's passion for global statistics: overarching averages can obscure a lot of important detail.
