Statistic

Examples

• And he said, Here are the stutterings—' 'Statistics,' said Louisa. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• There are to-day (statistics of 1898), 445,064 miles of railway tracks in the world. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It was too clear and simple and too open and shut and many of the statistics he knew were faked by wishful thinking. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• But statistics do not show that as a whole there are fewer printers in the land. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Statistics help. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Statistics then is no automatic device for measuring facts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Even the most refined statistics are nothing but an abstraction. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I wonder you don't go in for statistics. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Human statistics are illuminating to those who know humanity. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Some idea of the immensity of this industry may be obtained from the import statistics. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Voting, as Gabriel Tarde points out, is our most conspicuous use of statistics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But the moment you begin inquiries into subjects which people prefer to conceal, the weakness of statistics becomes obvious. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Although the electric pen had a large sale and use in its time, the statistics relating to it are not available. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Comment is made on kerosene and its cost, and all kinds of general statistics are jotted down as desirable. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I would not trust a hermit's inferences about the statistics of anything. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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