statistic
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The complicated way the statistic is calculated, and relatively small changes from year to year, can obscure the larger improvements in public health over time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
For all the bad publicity directed frequently at the Los Angeles Unified School District and City Section schools, let’s point out an impressive statistic from the opening week of the high school football season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Bessent, in other words, picked the one statistic that told a happy story and built a press appearance around it, while the broader data he was being asked about pointed the other way.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
Sosnick is cautious about using the statistic to call a market top or turning point.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
This is an intriguing statistic: the same people who routinely steal more than 10 percent of his bagels almost never stoop to stealing his money box—a tribute to the nuanced social calculus of theft.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
The median full-time worker makes $65,000 each year, based on annualized Labor Department statistics for the second quarter.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Her story captures exactly why a typical physician’s answer based on population-level evidence and statistics can feel so unsatisfying to an individual patient or worried family member.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
Another lawyer, Emmanuel Daoud, expressed hope that the three-week trial would be an opportunity to see would-be migrants not as "statistics or commodities, but human beings in search of a better life."
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
She said that after decades of economic growth, the latest statistics released by government showed the economy had declined by 7.4% in the two years to March 2024.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Something visceral and less tangential than, say, statistics, laws, police enforcement, or television commercials: The issue had to be made personal.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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