Saah Exco was found alone on a beach in Liberia's West Point slum, naked and abandoned and likely an Ebola victim.Research suggests the story of one needy individual motivates charitable donors more
than statistics about millions of sufferers.
Not exact matches
Although the Institute for Family Studies reports that more husbands
than wives admit to being unfaithful, according to The Cut, psychoanalyst and writer Esther Perel cites an increase of 40 % in unfaithful women since 1990, while men's
statistics have stayed
about the same.
At least three
statistics suggest Foster knew considerably more
about foundry operation
than he lets on.
A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less
than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are
about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering
statistics.
By comparison, all the Tesla (tsla) cars on the road (
about 280,000 at the end of 2017, according to company
statistics) likely used less
than 1.3 terawatt hours of electricity combined for the year, a Fortune analysis found.
This is one of several dubious indicators that, while it may appear to be accurate, teaches us more
about the fallibility of
statistics than the behavior of the market.
Kulich added that, according to the site's
statistics, North Carolina's taste in porn is more open minded
than the passing of the HB2 law would suggest — in March, viewers from the state searched the term «Gay» 319,907 times and «Transsexual»
about 400,000 times.
In fact,
Statistics Canada data shows that employers are
about four times more likely to be earning less
than $ 40,000
than more
than $ 250,000.
I would hope your marketing advice is more intelligent
than your obvious lack of knowledge
about medical conditions and medical
statistics.
As a budding entrepreneur, you have likely heard the less -
than - hopeful phrase, «starving startup,» or dismal
statistics about the low odds of a business surviving its first year.
You've probably heard dour
statistics about rising tuition costs and rising student debt, which has exploded to more
than $ 1.2 trillion.9 At the same time, there has been a decline in the number of pre-retirees saving for retirement — at least according to our RISE surveys over the past two years.
Yet, I would feel better
about the conclusions reached by Scaperlanda if he could quote from
statistics that were less
than a decade or more old.
Unless your
statistics are different
than mine, there are
about the same number of people with nut allergies as there are with celiac.
Unless your
statistics are different
than mine, there are
about the same number of people with nut allergies as their are with celiac.
According to the California Department of Labor
Statistics and Research, workers in food - processing plants have a higher likelihood of being hurt on the job
than workers in many other industries.1 One injury while using a meat slicer could end up costing you hundreds of thousands of dollars, especially when you think
about the damage that a meat slicer could do to the human body.
Its evident that those
statistics are rubbish or better yet what the writer is saying the
statistics imply, does a man who walks
about his work place means he is doing more work
than one sitting.
You are the one that claims the
statistics show that Barzagli is somehow much better
than Rugani when the differences we are talking
about are 91.7 % vs. 89.7 % with Rugani completing 21 passes more per game
than Barzagli.
as
statistics clearly show, less
than 20 % of the people killed this year by police have been black... but, the media and the race baiters continue to make a big issue whenever the victim is black... what
about the other 80 %?
The ever expanding mass of football
statistics are most frequently used by the desperate in attempting to prove a point
about their favourite player (why Noble is better
than Kouyate or vice versa) or to pad out column inches in printed and online media (just like this one!)
The U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics says that in 2013,
about 96 percent of two - parent families had at least one parent who was employed outside the home, while both parents were employed in more
than half of two - parent families.
Another commercial cites these
statistics about disposables: 80 percent of mothers use disposable diapers today, and few are willing to give them up; 83 percent of mothers surveyed said disposable diapers keep their baby «s skin drier; 80 percent of a disposable diaper is compostable; and diapers represent less
than 2 percent of landfill waste today.
Here we see that they are willing to lie
about their own
statistics, which show that home birth is in fact riskier
than hospital birth.
The truly shocking thing
about homebirth is that even when you include malpractice and negligence in the hospital
statistics, homebirth STILL has a death rate that is 450 % higher
than hospital birth for comparable risk women.
Some of the astonishing
statistics include, a 50 % reduction in use of pain medication,
about a 30 % faster
than average first stage of labor, and a significant reduction in the use of an epidural, forceps, vacuum extraction, an episiotomy, and likelihood of a surgical birth.
I really believe that now is the time to look at things differently: despite the
statistics we see on a daily basis, it's not
about whether one person or one nation is better at language learning
than another.
«I call on this administration today, talk
about how we're going to bring problem - solving initiatives in our challenged communities, rather
than talk
about statistics that never trickle down to grandparents, to parents, to children who lose their loved ones on the streets of New York all too often,» he continued.
Soon the
statistics registered a sharp drop in Tay - Sachs, from
about 40 to 50 cases a year among Ashkenazim to fewer
than 10.
Between 2003 and 2006, cardiovascular disease death rates were
about 1.7 times higher among adults diagnosed with diabetes
than those who were not, according to the CDC's 2014 National Diabetes
Statistics Report.
Consider these
statistics: in 1996
about 25 percent of scientific articles were written by authors from two or more countries; today the number is more
than 35 percent.
Yet, cadmium telluride commands only
about 30 percent of the thin - film market, according to DoE
statistics, compared with amorphous silicon cells (such as those produced by Sharp and ECD Ovonics), which account for more
than 60 percent; CIGS cells make up just
about 1 percent of this market.
According to the National Bureau of
Statistics, China last year invested
about $ 74.8 billion in coal mining and dressing facilities,
about $ 7.8 billion less
than in 2013.
In the absence of that premise, the goal of activists and interested parties to the bioethics debates should be to learn how best to educate the public, rather
than to wield essentially meaningless
statistics about existing attitudes.
Some other
statistics:
About half of the world's tropical forests have been cleared (FAO) Forests currently cover about 30 percent of the world's land mass (National Geographic) Forest loss contributes between 6 percent and 12 percent of annual global carbon dioxide emissions (Nature Geoscience) About 36 football fields worth of trees lost every minute (World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-RRB- Rain Forest Threats, Rain Forest Species More than half of Earth's rain forests have already been lost forever to the insatiable human demand for wood and arable
About half of the world's tropical forests have been cleared (FAO) Forests currently cover
about 30 percent of the world's land mass (National Geographic) Forest loss contributes between 6 percent and 12 percent of annual global carbon dioxide emissions (Nature Geoscience) About 36 football fields worth of trees lost every minute (World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-RRB- Rain Forest Threats, Rain Forest Species More than half of Earth's rain forests have already been lost forever to the insatiable human demand for wood and arable
about 30 percent of the world's land mass (National Geographic) Forest loss contributes between 6 percent and 12 percent of annual global carbon dioxide emissions (Nature Geoscience)
About 36 football fields worth of trees lost every minute (World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-RRB- Rain Forest Threats, Rain Forest Species More than half of Earth's rain forests have already been lost forever to the insatiable human demand for wood and arable
About 36 football fields worth of trees lost every minute (World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-RRB- Rain Forest Threats, Rain Forest Species More
than half of Earth's rain forests have already been lost forever to the insatiable human demand for wood and arable land.
We could rattle off a load more
statistics but the general picture of Greeks and Italians sitting back, chinking red wine glasses together and laughing
about how much thinner they are
than the rest of the world is a myth.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor and
Statistics project that the health care sector is projected to grow 18 % from 2016 to 2026, much faster
than the average for all occupations, adding
about 2.3 million new jobs... more jobs
than any other group of occupations.
Business of fashion blogging has increasingly become
about social media numbers
than blog readership
statistics or quality itself.
In winnipeg,
statistics canada data shows at last count, there were
about 11,000 more women
than men who reported having some post-secondary education.
Recent
statistics show that
about one in five people in the USA will have dated someone they met online at some point in their life, even if it resulted in nothing more
than a single date.
Statistics has also shown that married women in the US were
about 4 years younger
than married men
Dr. Warren writes
about a sad trend that for the first time in U.S. history,
statistics released by U.S. Census Bureau show that fewer
than half of the households are married.
Statistics always reveal the truth and when we are speaking
about numbers issues by none other
than Alexa.com, things can never go wrong.
Statistics have shown that younger men tend to be more positive
about life
than older men.
offers facts and
statistics about more
than 8,000,000 locations worldwide, including the population, county
The film presents a lot of
statistics — almost more
than can be taken in on one viewing, in fact —
about the state of manhood in this country, but it also shows examples of what parents and teachers and coaches and other role models can do to raise men who can be strong and powerful without shutting off their feelings.
She was clear and confident in her delivery of complex
statistics; she was persuasive as she answered questions
about the policy implications of her research; and, in my opinion, her work was better
than that of the more seasoned researchers on the panel.
In 1995, The Children's Defense Fund reported devastating
statistics about daily life in the United States: 1,420 teenagers give birth; 3,356 adolescents drop out of school; 8,239 children are reported abused or neglected; more
than 100,000 children are homeless;
about 135,000 children bring guns to schools; and three children die from abuse.
In a new study, students in an introductory college
statistics class who took a short online survey before each exam asking them to think
about how they would prepare for it earned higher grades in the course
than their peers — a third of a letter grade higher, on average.
There will always be people who think that
statistics and probability are more important
than arithmetic and algebra, despite the fact that you can't do
statistics and probability without arithmetic and algebra and that you will never see a question
about statistics or probability on a college placement exam, thus making
statistics and probability irrelevant for college preparation.
State
statistics suggest that the teachers, who are nonunionized, tend to quit their jobs more frequently
than in other schools; Ms. Moskowitz disputes the numbers, but wrote to her teachers a couple of years ago complaining
about those who had left midyear and telling them, «This is not a «gig.»»
But
statistics showing African - American students in the district were eight times more likely to get an out - of - school suspension
than white students last year raises questions
about whether the discipline code works against efforts to close the achievement gap.