It seems unlikely that these statistics will remain quite as buoyant when airlines or banks start trying to be our new best buddies, but they're going to give it a go anyway.
Although every coach uses plenty of data — the Titans' Jeff Fisher tracks how long his team takes to break the huddle — football is unlikely to bestow statistics-driven celebrity on anyone the way the baseball book "Moneyball" did on Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics.
But after 20 months, almost 40% of that group was either doubled up or homeless again, and most of the financial savings had disappeared--statistics unlikely to improve when the full 36-month study is finished.
Yet these statistics are unlikely to make us feel any easier.
Over the next few months the economic statistics are unlikely to "prove" that either the hawks or doves are right.
But such statistics are unlikely to be reliable, since the colleges to which a student applies are not necessarily the same as the colleges that have accepted the student.
So overwhelming was England's defeat by Australia in the second Ashes Test that, as they pick their way through the wreckage of their shattered confidence, a thorough examination of historical statistics is unlikely to figure high on their priority list.
By creating a midpoint average image, patients' scans are equally manipulated and statistics are unlikely to be biased.
Unlikely results: Using Bayesian statistics it is possible to guard against overinterpreting highly unlikely results.
Frequencies of all four genotype classes at the peak marker loci are balanced (range: 0.20 to 0.31, Additional file 1: Table S1) so that test statistics are unlikely to be biased.
