You can find a statistic or study to support nearly every wacky theory out there.
Franken cited a statistic from 2006 that 26, 000 people had been stalked using GPS devices.
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Economists have a statistic with which to measure this reluctance to part with a dollar.
This substantial gap is more than a statistic -- it has real life consequences.
Senator Kyl misspoke when he incorrectly cited a statistic on the Senate floor last week regarding Planned Parenthood.
"We haven't scored there but that is just a statistic and maybe we can change that, " said Benitez.
However, the EZ Finance Ministers saw yesterday that such a statistic is only on course if Greece starts to grow.
Low-income women and African American women are also posting low breastfeeding numbers, a statistic that is concerning to public health advocates.
Consider a statistic from a recent survey from iPass, which found that mobile workers now carry an average of 3.5 devices.
Every once in a while you run across a statistic or bit of information that really makes you sit up and take notice.
The numbers are based on FanGraphs' projected 2012 wins above replacement (WAR), a statistic used to compare a player's value to the average Triple-A fill-in.
Each of those 1, 463 represents not a statistic, but a person.
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Ask yourself this: Are you a statistic or a specific example?
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You've heard of the expression "reducing a person to a statistic"?
The Obama-era left seeks to inflate a statistic into a people.
One day I became a statistic and I lost my job.
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That's a statistic worth noting when you consider that most of the artists represented in this auction are still living, and many are under 40 years old.
But this is a statistic likely to be transformed by changes in England which make education compulsory up to 17 this year and up to 18 in 2015.
However, I understand that, such a statistic is little comfort to the parents of a child suffering from cancer who are unable to acquire a life saving drug.
Woodson had two winning seasons in Atlanta and in both of those years, 2009 and 2010, they were 24th and 27th respectively in a statistic that measures possessions.
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Baroni cited a statistic that claimed that while Atlantic City's airport served 1.4 million passengers in 2012, only 1 percent of inbound travelers wound up at the casinos.
Let me start with a statistic that some of you might already know: While women make 47% of the U.S. workforce, only 5% of startups are owned by women.
So let's look at a statistic we might call the dominance ratio: the ratio of the winner's percentage of return points won to his opponent's percentage of return points won.
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Robson was able to stay with Jankovic when she made her first serve, but a statistic of just 14% of points won on her second serve held the key to the opening set.
Poulter made 47 of the 72 greens in regulation (65.3% and sixth overall), a statistic which would have been considerably higher but for his second round when he managed to hit just nine.
It was Doyle's fourth goal of the season and made him joint top scorer with centre-back Jody Craddock - a statistic that goes some way to explain why Wolves had won only one game away from home.
In fact, there is a difference of more than 300% between the highest cost-per-win on both respective levels, a statistic that gives significant relevancy to the efficiency of the coaches who are successful at the lower resource level.
Nearly every real-estate agent uses a stager, or claims to be one and if you question the need, you're likely to be told that staged houses sell 73% faster than those that aren't (a statistic from the Real Estate Staging Association).
But they have not surpassed whites either in high school graduation or college attendance--only in a statistic that combines both a measure of educational success (going to college) with one of failure (dropping out of high school, which reduces the denominator and thereby increases the overall number).
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