Still and all, the statistics are persuasive, though the women most affected by them are sometimes hesitant to speak out.
But if anyone doubted what Salk and Sabin and all who came before them had achieved, the statistics were persuasive: the number of polio cases dropped from thirty-eight thousand, in 1954, to twenty-nine thousand, in 1955 — and, a year later, to fifteen thousand.
But if anyone doubted what Salk and Sabin and all who came before them had achieved, the statistics were persuasive: the number of polio cases dropped from thirty-eight thousand, in 1954, to twenty-nine thousand, in 1955 and, a year later, to fifteen thousand.
Such statistics are not persuasive by themselves, and the professors know it.
When my statistics weren't persuasive enough, he would embellish them -- or simply invent facts that better fit that day's rant.
He reeled off a litany of statistics that sounded pretty persuasive: better academic test scores than most states, rising income levels, a higher penetration of health insurance, more stability in housing prices than in most of the country.
Arguments based on statistics are rarely as persuasive as an army of grieving mothers and fathers, no matter what their merits.
Yet while the 2005 report on Turkey was persuasive, HRW's evaluation of government statistics would have been further strengthened by more attention to sampling detail.
But Snow's study of the neighborhood enabled him to add persuasive anecdotal evidence to the anonymity of statistics.
