Liberal Democrat Baroness Hamwee said responsibility for immigration statistics should be handed to the Official for National Statistics (ONS).
Ego, hatred and childhood experiences are not something that can be turned into statistics.
It will be months before statistics are published for this year's capital account.
This is a common scientific activity that cannot be automated by statistics, no matter how often or how hard people try to do so.
Depending upon how loose you want to be with your statistics, the frequency is either staying the same (conservative stats) or actually in decline (loosey-goosey stats).
The upshot of this refusal to grapple with the changing realities of sexual and personal life in the Arab world can be seen in statistics: spiraling rates of HIV and other sexually-transmitted infections, a rising tide of sexual violence, on the street and in the home, and the thriving business of clandestine abortion.
But then others objected that the Met Office is the official provider of World Meteorological Organisation statistics and it would be ludicrous to reject their highly sophisticated statistics smoothed by computer models just because the Met Office forecasters were amongst the contestants in the Weather Test.
This doesn't seem to be the case, if the government's employment statistics are to be believed.
But whilst the asylum system can be more generous than the statistics make it appear, it can also be brutal.
The MPs said the use of statistics system had improved, but more control needed to be given to the UK Statistics Authority to boost public confidence.
The UK Statistics Authority "must be and be seen to be an effective, independent watchdog able to ensure statistics are produced efficiently and to a set standard", he added.
"I do think we've got to be a bit wary of these statistics because I think they'd be more significant if it were accompanied by a public outcry by various victims who think that they have been ignored, " she says.
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He believes the 49ers-Ravens Super Bowl will be a superb contest between two great teams but, with all the statistics that will be made available before and during the game, he plans to pay attention to none of them.
By law, no ethnic statistics can be collected, so nobody can talk about ethnic factors.
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These statistics can be spot-on or misleading, and figuring out which they are can be a challenge.
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In the view of some commentators, these biases are so great that hedge-fund statistics should be dismissed altogether.
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However, researchers are now able to expose how misleading those statistics can be.
Investors should not be deceived by the statistics: India offers plenty of opportunities.
Their certainty rests on something much more visceral than what can be provided by any statistics and admittedly far-from-perfect studies.
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One way to encourage more fine-tuning of policing to local conditions would be to make crime statistics more readily available.
He does not want public faith in census statistics to be undermined by partisan bickering over the methods that produced them.
Admittedly, these statistics may be influenced by the pre-loading of apps for services such as Facebook and Google Maps onto many phones.
But Gould would not allow himself to be discouraged by the statistics.
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For me, this global recession is not to be measured just in statistics, or in graphs or in figures on a balance sheet.
The group has been opposed to the Racial Justice Act, saying that cases should not be decided by generalized statistics presented years after a conviction.
So an on-the-face-of-it international comparison of rape statistics can be misleading.
Naturally, with such an inclusive view, the statistics can be skewed to make it appear that the expiration of the top two tax rates will ravage small business owners.
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However, no precise statistics can be given for China, where numbers are secret, but where the group says it believes thousands were executed - more than the rest of the world put together.
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It's another slab of "Network"-esque bravado from Sorkin -- the creator of "The West Wing" -- but the point is well taken, even if his statistics could be a bit off.
The three big rules of research, as they were taught to me in high school, are pay attention to source bias, never trust the Internet (especially Wikipedia), and remember that statistics can be misleading.
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