Apart from his misunderstanding of statistics - or the "law of probabilities", as he put it - another point to consider is that the different leaders have different types of cancer, and the biological mechanisms behind each are different.
Learning about the distribution of earthquakes may not prevent the Big One, but for war and terrorism, power-law statistics may teach governments something about how to defeat the enemy, and make war less deadly.
In objecting to the Texas law, the Justice Department said it reviewed the state's own statistics showing 600, 000 registered voters lack a driver's license or another form of government identification.
New Jersey court officials didn't have statistics available on the number of arrests or successful prosecutions since the law was enacted in 2003.
As reported by the U.S. Bureau of Statistics in 2008, 73 federal law enforcement agencies then employed approximately 120, 000 armed full-time on-duty officers with arrest authority.
In a report for the Southern Poverty Law Center called Discounting Hate, Potok concluded that hate crime statistics are plagued with inaccuracy.
But even those statistics may or may not include incidents in which the crew requested that local law enforcement meet the plane and take control of a passenger, an FAA spokeswoman said.
The FTC's enforcement statistics don't include actions taken by more than 2, 000 other law-enforcement agencies that have access to the Consumer Sentinel database, which purges complaints after five years.
Although Romney had a chorus of Democrats to reckon with in the State House, he ultimately took credit for the healthcare reform law, and for running a successful state economy as measured by median income and employment statistics during his term.
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But a new study by two law professors offers an additional, surprising explanation: A change in the way the bankruptcy courts report statistics may have led analysts to mistakenly believe that bankruptcy was no longer a key escape hatch for entrepreneurs, conclude Elizabeth Warren of Harvard University and Robert Lawless of the University of Nevada.
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