Sentence examples for people statistics from inspiring English sources

For many people, statistics with regard to people being killed may only be numbers, but each person killed in these incidents represents a broken family.

Sharot's research team showed people statistics about the likelihood of undesirable events car accidents or robbery, theft or credit card fraud and they were more likely to believe them when they were under pressure, about to give a speech or fight a fire.

Holmes spoke with Stanford Report about the ways people misunderstand statistics, how computers shifted the trajectory of statistics and what statistics research looks like in the era of big data.

Even sports, politics, and journalism increasingly draw on people with statistics training, as evidenced by the success of sports and politics statistician Nate Silver, says Montserrat Fuentes, head of the statistics department at North Carolina State University (NCSU) in Raleigh.

Stories rooted in people versus statistics.

To paraphrase an old adage: People use statistics the way a drunk uses a lamppost — more for support than illumination!

I got to know and love Afghans as individual people, not statistics in a far-away country.

IN communities across the country, people use statistics on hospitals, schools and other public services to decide where to live or how to vote.

Some people brandished statistics from Compubox, which tallies jabs and power punches (that is, every punch that isn't a jab) thrown and landed during major fights.

During another visit, Ms. Hickok heard complaints about cracks in the cinderblock walls, inadequate closet space, and a government that saw people as statistics.

Unfortunately many of these habits do not bring happiness in their wake, turning people into statistics for studies on happiness or a lack thereof.