If all consumers of health care could only locate all the relevant medical data they required and evaluate it, deciphering the myriad statistics and risks associated with treatments, there might be fewer disappointing outcomes.
So, calmly, it commissioned a lengthy study on workplace safety, a study that -- with charts and myriad statistics -- strikes out at the notion that your friendly letter carrier is likely, at any moment, to whip an Uzi out of his mail pouch.
There's also a growing effort to get colleges to conduct campus climate surveys, so that each school get can an idea of what's happening on their own campus, rather than sorting through the myriad of statistics being disputed.
Athletes are evaluated with a myriad of statistics regarding their performance.
Mr. Schwartz is a national correspondent for The New York Times, and his reporter's tool kit is evident in the book's inclusion of concise, useful primers on the current state of gay rights as well as myriad research and statistics regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth.
The potential for the global economy is obvious, as any small selection from the myriad mind-boggling statistics clearly shows.
And behind the statistics, a myriad of individual tragedies, personal anguish and aching grief.
The field of formal statistics explores myriad refinements of arguments of this sort.
Although of fundamental impact, these and myriad other contributions of statistics are widely unknown to the public, which is why more than 1,600 organizations in 112 countries are joining together to promote 2013 as the International Year of Statistics.
In the present model not only is this activity present, but also the myriad other patterns with firing statistics and variability similar to those which constitute much of the activity correlated with working memory are accounted for.
When we were at school it amused our science teachers to dazzle us with astronomical statistics — so many myriads of light years, so many zillions of stars — but the numbers that we are being forced to count on our too-few fingers now have nothing to do with the fanciful dimensions of outer space.
