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This substantial gap is more than a statistic -- it has real life consequences.
It has to do with the specifics of government statistic-gathering.
But the BLS itself admits a key component of this statistic--estimates of jobs added at small businesses just opened minus jobs lost at small ones just closed--tends to exaggerate employment in a slowdown.
In the Budget last month, George Osborne again cited his favourite trade statistic - that the UK exports more to the Republic of Ireland than to all of the Brics countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) combined.
But actually for me there is a more troubling ECB statistic - which is that eurozone banks last night borrowed 15bn euros overnight from the central bank (and a little less on Monday but a bit more at the end of last week).
To complete these rankings we created a meta-statistic called the Forbes Total Production Number (FTPN), which credits players for hits, hitting for power and bases on balls, and debits them for strikeouts.
The R-squared statistic for the relationship is practically zero, indicating no relationship between the two series.
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The R-squared statistic for this relationship is also practically zero, again indicating no relationship.
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In part, that statistic reflects an India-Mauritius tax treaty that legally eases the flow of investment funds into India.
Take a well-known statistic: As recently as the 1970s, there was little difference in the lifetime earning potential between a high school grad and a four-year-college degree holder.
An oft-heard statistic while I was in Silicon Valley was that the Bay Area and Seattle (where Microsofties multiply) were the America's biggest consumers of pizza, Levi's and triple lattes.
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It is a horrific statistic that hints at - among many factors - the widening wealth gap in a country where the poor are so often obliged to squeeze into speeding and over-crowded minibuses for long commutes.
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.
Raikkonen's second place sealed his 20th consecutive finish in Formula One -- although that statistic had looked in danger following a coming together with McLaren's Sergio Perez.
Yet the most graphic statistic is not the 42-14Alabama victory.
The Chinese economy grew 10.6 percent during the first three quarters of this year -- an enviable statistic, as most other major economies still struggle to recover from the global recession.
You've seen -- I don't have the statistic in front of me, but the degree to which, say, college-educated individuals have lost their jobs in this is far greater than we've seen in other recessions.
But one recent statistic underscores just how different Wal-Mart and Amazon loyalists really are.
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Another statistic Krossover compiles is effective field-goal percentage (or eFG%), a weighted formula that adjusts for the difficulty of the shots taken.
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You looked at -- we had the -- I think the statistic I saw, that I probably got from Dr. Romer, was that you had consecutive quarters of more than 5 percent, more than negative-5 percent economic retraction for the first time since the Great Depression.
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).
Once again, Larkin had led the National League in this statistic for three consecutive seasons (1989-1991) and even led all of Major League Baseball in 1991.
This statistic is amply borne out by real-life experience, in the sense that American corporations in Japan are finding it as hard as ever to recruit decent help.
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But there is another statistic tracked by the BLS called U-6, which covers a more comprehensive unemployment universe, including those who have stopped looking and those who are involuntarily underemployed.
So where did this oft-cited, little analyzed statistic originate?
All of these statistics figured rather prominently in the Times Higher Education story, but perhaps the most interesting statistic is one which was buried half-way down, namely that the share of those with degree qualifications in high skilled occupations actually fell between 1993 and 2010.
But the 40-year-old defender insists the only statistic he is interested in is how many points the team can earn.
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