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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

At the same time, profits across a sample of 110 for-profit utilities rose from just under $39 billion in 2021 to more than $52 billion in 2024 — a statistic already appearing in campaign speeches.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

I called him “the fact guy,” for how he seemed to have a statistic to match every little twist in a conversation.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Trade between the two sides has doubled to $2.2 billion in 2024 from $1.1 billion in 2018, almost all in exports from China to Nepal, according to Chinese official statistics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Last year, nearly 6,000 people died in road accidents across the country, according to Egypt's state statistics agency.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

These raw statistics are not the only reason to resist the temptation to extrapolate recent EPS growth rates into the future, however.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

After making those corrections, the team developed a new method for reconstructing the glacier's internal ice in three dimensions using Bayesian statistics.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

We were decades, still, from a time when a simple Google search would bring up a head-spinning array of charts, statistics, and medical explainers that either gave or took away hope.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama