Sentence examples for understood statistics from inspiring English sources

Ryan, the Jets' coach, cares about passer rating, one of the N.F.L.'s more pervasive yet least understood statistics, and he cares about it deeply.

Anecdote always helps us understand statistics.

And growing numbers of scientists, especially young ones, understand statistics.

And only 13% said they were "very confident" they understand statistics on government spending cuts.

But motherhood is not a necessary precondition either of empathy or an ability to understand statistics about the costs of parenthood.

But they said the hourlong, multiple-choice test measured children's ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide, and to understand statistics and probability.

The MLB Network analyst Harold Reynolds said the issue was that team rosters were constructed by "Moneyball" acolytes, who understand statistics but not baseball's nuances.

But it might be nice if someone who actually does understand statistics, like Nate Silver, took a look at this and decided whether there's anything there.

I don't remember every detail my patients tell me in therapy sessions (which is why I keep careful notes), I don't write flawless manuscripts (which is why God invented editors), and I ask for help when I need it (thank heaven there are folks who actually understand statistics).

This isn't to say that genetic screening is bad, it just complicates things for the rest of us, especially those who don't understand statistics.

Data science also has an increasing presence in academic fields, including the life and physical sciences, so faculty opportunities have also increased for people who understand statistics and computer science alongside their core disciplines.