Sentence examples for statistical claims from inspiring English sources

Finally, some of Huntington's statistical claims are improperly derived.

A review this week urged the BBC to better explain statistical claims in its coverage.

But most of this questioning – 65.2% – was carried out by rival politicians, with 17.6% of statistical claims challenged by journalists.

The goal is to provide students pragmatic tools for assessing statistical claims and conducting their own basic statistical analyses.

Listed below are all the party posters carrying statistical claims in the run up to the election in May and looking to see whether the figures pass muster.

Loughborough University's research produced similar findings, while the Cardiff researchers found that statistical claims made by campaigners were challenged in fewer than one in five cases.

Shell's new chief executive Peter Voser last week made one statistical claim for his company's progress to date.

Justice Stephen Breyer seemed to surprise himself when he dismissed the "statistical" claim: "Oh, no, it can't be.

In oral arguments before the Supreme Court last week, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. introduced a statistical claim that he took to imply that an important provision of the Voting Rights Act has become outmoded.

If a statistical claim is repeated often enough it can become accepted as a universal truth, even if it has no basis in fact.

But this opens the possibility of challenging the objectivity of error frequencies that the error-statistical approach claims.