He shouldn't be debating what statistic to put on slide four of the Powerpoint presentation.
Registered accounts can be a misleading statistic, though.
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But hope that this horrifying statistic can be eradicated is being fueled by technology which is helping monitor water supplies more quickly and efficiently.
Yet the price it exacts may be reflected in another statistic.
Motherwell themselves have conceded just the one goal on their European travels this season, an injury-time penalty in Norway, but a real threat to that statistic will be Peter Utaka, younger brother of Portsmouth's John.
This statistic could be seen against this week's profits announcement by British Gas, which reported an 11% increase in profits from its residential energy business - in part thanks to a 12% rise in consumption.
Now that statement may be more important than any statistic you can serve up.
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Sadly, that statistic will likely be surpassed in the year ahead.
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.
Northern Ireland have now gone 882 minutes without scoring and, while the NI boss knows his critics will highlight that statistic, he preferred to be positive.
This statistic, however, could be a mirage.
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To be sure, one must be wary of weighted averages or any kind of statistic that by its nature favors inclusion of winners.
The most arresting statistic for young people reading the article may be on cell phones.
The Hammers arrived in Lancashire with a record of three clean sheets from their previous five games, but at times Jack Collison seemed to be on a one-man mission to alter that statistic.
That statistic is worth repeating and since it will not be repeated by anyone else in my lifetime.
Moreover, Muller admits the recognized temperature authorities try to homogenize the temperature records from the thousands of temperature stations around the globe to come up with a summary statistic of the degree of global warming, and serious questions can be raised as to how to do that, disputing a large portion of the warming attributed to humans.
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Lord Freud said the government would produce statistics "to national statistic standards" once the results of the programme are seen, which would be around autumn.
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).
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