It is that cancer often deviates wildly from the averages, so much so that merely applying the general statistics to an individual patient can often turn out to be downright misleading.
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Cities in China are typically classified according to location, population, and general economic statistics.
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And general economic statistics show that this theory of squeezing more out of each worker is yielding the desired results.
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Einstein had objected to Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and, in general, to the statistics-based, ultimately random foundation of life Bohr was promoting.
The number of alcohol-related deaths among women aged 30 to 44 has doubled in the last 20 years, although numbers remain relatively small (70 deaths in 2010), according to statistics from the General Register Office for Scotland.
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Scottish Trades Union Congress general secretary Grahame Smith said the statistics represented "better news than recent months".
For more than a century, baseball general managers relied on many of the same statistics to objectively evaluate talent.
There were some different statistics on that this week, General Petraeus, for example, suggesting that maybe only 10, 000 would be necessary.
The Director-General and the Minister inaugurated together the Center of Statistics of all Ministries responsible for Education.
More importantly, the general public knew little of the growing body of statistics.
Smoking has in general been on the decline in France, but recent statistics show it is becoming popular again, especially among the young, where one half of 18 to 34 year olds have begun lighting up.
Human resources departments may care whether a candidate is well-rounded, creative and chaste, but general managers and scouts care about more concrete things: game statistics, 40-second dash time, injury history, arm length, Wonderlic score and other so-called measurables.
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They want the new qualification to focus on statistics, mathematical modelling of real-life problems and general mathematical fluency.
The guide also includes helpful phrases, key statistics (such as trip length, average spend) and general information (including preferred meal times).
Brian Lightman, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said the statistics should encourage people to "ask more probing questions".
But the calls for people to boycott the statistics-gathering programme have not seriously damaged its effectiveness, according to Registrar General for England and Wales, Len Cook.
The greatest public speakers, from Steve Jobs to Winston Churchill to former General Electric chief executive Jack Welch, tell stories to get their points across, rather than relying on statistics on PowerPoint slides.
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