According to oft-cited statistics, climate scientists are 95%-99 95%-99in of climate change – about as certain as they are of the link between smoking and lung cancer.
According to NSF statistics, doctoral scientists' median income rises with each year of experience until late middle age, peaking 25 to 29 years after the Ph.D. at just under $100,000.
Using statistics, the scientists determined which combinations of descriptors were the key ones -- those used most often without being redundant.
It gradually expanded to include astronomy, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear science, quantitative biology, and statistics as scientists in these fields began to embrace preprints (Ginsparg, 2011).
But Dr. Gayle also talked of an urgent need for better treatment and more reliable statistics, so that scientists could better understand how the epidemic was spreading and who exactly was at risk.
Oakland R.&D. at first consisted of applying hidden truths about baseball unearthed by hobbyists -- Harvard statistics professors, research scientists, Wall Street analysts turned amateur baseball analysts -- and ignored by organized baseball.
Indeed, other researchers presented statistics showing that scientists often introduce several unsuccessful biocontrol insects before picking a winner.
Whether they're an actor, a celebrated sports star or even a scientist, statistics alone mean that many of these specific categories of people will be powerful mutants.
Not only must we give students a broad-based introduction to the field, the conversation usually goes, but we must also provide them with all the knowledge required of a modern scientist: statistics, computer programming, optics, ethics, and translational science, among others.
Yet, according to recent National Science Foundation statistics ( Characteristics of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers: 1999), about one-third of Ph.D. scientists and engineers work in the private-for-profit sector.
But such statistics can mislead, social scientists say.
