Questions tagged [statistics]
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Is Youtube primarily a male domain?
This is a quote from Jordan Peterson. I've provided two examples, one in which he qualifies the major viewership as being "young" males, in the other it's a generalised statement about all men. I've heard him make this claim many times, but…
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Did China achieve its benchmark of lifting 1.4 billion people out of poverty mainly by lowering the standard?
In the video "Poor Chinese Girl eats RATS" (which is from the same source as the one deriding China for declaring itself a "developing country", FWTW) it is said that:
their blustering of lifting all these 1.4 billion people out of poverty. It's…
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Have about 170 million people been killed in the name of Allah?
In a question recently asked on the Christianity site, namely, Why don’t Christians accept Muhammad as the true prophet?, an answer quoted this article:
“Beware of false prophets who … inwardly are ravenous wolves.” “Ravenous” certainly seems an…
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Do first pregnancies tend to deliver later than the due-date?
Many online resources state that it's very unlikely for a pregnancy to result in a delivery exactly on the estimated due date. I've seen the number of about 5%, but can't find it nor am much interested in this information specifically.
There is also…
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Did Aaron Levenstein say 'Statistics are like bikinis'?
From a Cross Validated (better known as Stats.SE) answer with 117 upvotes:
Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-Aaron Levenstein
As @Dikran Marsupial points out, the quote is found in…
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Did more Vietnam vets kill themselves after the war than died in it?
In his song 'Terrorist' the artist Lowkey asserts:
When more Vietnam vets kill themselves
After the war than died in it?
Is this true?
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Is Israel exporting 100s-of-Millions, or Billions, USD of arms per year?
A multi-annual chart on the "trading economies website suggests Israeli arms exports have a "total insurable value" of hundreds of millions of USD per year.
However, this story on the global defense corp site suggests arms exports are in the…
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Does Flanders have the highest density of General Practitioners globally?
Every year in September, the Belgian dutch public news agency (VRT) does a piece about the evolution of the need for extra GPs in Flanders. This need is analyzed by number of "priority zones", which are defined as zones with less 90 GPs per 100,000…
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Does the IRS claim that 7 out of 7 specific hard-drives crashed in a single month?
A post relating to a political issue is going around saying it is astronomically unlikely that 7 hard drives would crash in the same month, specifically:
The odds of a disk drive failing in any given month are roughly one in 36. The odds of two…
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Do reports from the UK show that Covid-19 vaccines had a higher mortality rate among children than the Covid Virus in 2021?
According to OAN, between January and December 2021 the covid-19 vaccine had a higher mortality rate among children than the covid virus (see linked video for full content):
Reports from the UK Government and the CDC reveal that the vaccines for…
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Why does PHE data indicate higher death numbers for vaccinated than unvaccinated persons?
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The Public Health England technical briefings are technical documents indicating specific statistics and their breakdowns regarding…
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Empirical evidence that foster children are better off with relatives than non-relative foster parents?
I'm looking into foster care policy and I'm coming across an empirical problem. There is a broad consensus that finding a relative of a foster child (often referred to as kin) leads to empirically better for outcomes for that child. For…
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Has China not published an official number of Covid-19 tests performed in its territory?
Taiwan’s vice president Chen Chien-jen claimed in a May 8 interview with France24 (around 3:40) that they cannot find the official number of Covid-19 tests performed in China... the implication being obviously that such [official] numbers aren't…
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Is there more than one registered motor vehicle for every adult in the US?
According to the US Census Bureau's table of estimated population as of July 1 each year, there were 268.3M people 14 years of age or older, including 260.1M people 16 years of age or older, including 251.6M people 18 years of age or older, as of…
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"For generations it was considered improper to die of cancer"?
In On the Accuracy of Economic Observations (1963, 2e, p. 23), Oskar Morgenstern claims that
for generations it was considered improper to die of cancer, hence little mention of this disease.
I found this claim novel and surprising. Was this ever…
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