Author Topic: The STATISTICS thread: Discuss numerical data here! (Read 10104 times)

NintendoExpert89 · « **Reply #15 on:** July 16, 2006, 09:43:51 AM »

"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration."
~Thomas Edison

4 out of 5 dentists recommend...

"Sleep with a tootsie pop in your mouth and let it dissolve through the night."

... staying away from the fifth dentist.

21% of the population is paralyzed from the waist down. The other 79% is laughing at them.
(got idea from Scary Movie 2)

33.3% of 150% of the US population are illegal immigrants.

Koopaslaya · « **Reply #16 on:** July 16, 2006, 11:13:29 AM »

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.

Ludwig · « **Reply #17 on:** July 16, 2006, 11:15:23 AM »

Quote from: TEM on July 14, 2006, 06:37:54 PM

"60% of the time it works everytime."

100% Anchorman quote.

Glorb · « **Reply #18 on:** July 17, 2006, 03:42:13 PM »

4 out of every 89% of Americans is human.

100% of the world's population is on Earth.

75% of all wood chucked by a woodchuck is not really wood.

Chupperson Weird · « **Reply #19 on:** July 17, 2006, 03:43:36 PM »

Quote from: Glorb on July 17, 2006, 03:42:13 PM

100% of the world's population is on Earth.

It's funny because that still isn't true!

superstarMASIAH · « **Reply #20 on:** July 18, 2006, 05:32:05 PM »

100% of the people that read solidmushroom's first post thought he was stating the obvious.

Jman · « **Reply #21 on:** July 19, 2006, 08:07:13 AM »

There are 2 kinds of people in this world...those who like Mario, and those who are seriously deprived.

The Blue Toad · « **Reply #22 on:** July 19, 2006, 02:12:17 PM »

1 out of 5 people agree that 20% is not a lot.

Lizard Dude · « **Reply #23 on:** July 19, 2006, 07:26:33 PM »

Quote from: Chupperson Weird on July 17, 2006, 03:43:36 PM

It's funny because that still isn't true!

It is if you round.

Luigison · « **Reply #24 on:** July 22, 2006, 11:58:07 PM »

"Round numbers are always false."

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

"There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up, and the kind you make up."

So, next time I make up a statistic I'll be sure to use 1, 4, and/or 7.

AbercrombieBaseball · « **Reply #25 on:** July 23, 2006, 10:42:31 AM »

Baseball is 40% physical and 60% mental. If any of you have ever played the game you probably know what I'm talking about.

I have another sort of random statistic here as well. 100% of prime numbers are divisible by only two numbers.

Markio · « **Reply #26 on:** July 23, 2006, 10:54:19 AM »

20% of 20 is 20%!

Luigison · « **Reply #27 on:** July 23, 2006, 01:38:08 PM »

"I've told you n times, I've told you n+1 times..."

There are three types of stataticians: those who can add and those who can't.

Luigison · « **Reply #28 on:** July 28, 2006, 06:01:01 PM »

"A recent report from the Association for the Promotion of Statistics states that this year meaningless statistics were up 4.29% on last year's figures."

"A physicist once proved that every odd number is prime. He cited 1, 3, 5 and 7. He had some trouble with 9, but on proceeding, he discovered that the pattern held for 11 and 13. Finally, he put 9 down to experimental error."

There's a 100% chance that I just bumped my own thread instead of editing my last post.

Insane Steve · « **Reply #29 on:** July 28, 2006, 07:13:26 PM »

What is 2 + 2?

If you're a normal person, the answer is four.
If you're a mathematician, the answer is either four, ten, or eleven depending on what base you compute in.
If you are a statistician, there is a 68% chance the answer lies between 3.95 and 4.05, a 95% chance that the answer lies somewhere between 3.9 and 4.1, and a 99.7% chance the answer lies between 3.85 and 4.15. This of course assumes a mean answer of 4 and a standard deviation of .05.