I can’t help myself. I love stats. What could be more fun? I
look at them endlessly because they are endless. Sometimes I make my own stats
out of stats I see. Sometimes I find myself reading stats of things I don’t
even care about. Below are the tiniest smattering.
State Math Writing Combined
You might notice that they are allMidwestern
states.
Try the worst. D.C. is included, and, as we know from the news, last. Notice that most of them are on the east coast and in all cases, coastal.
42New York
QB no. of tds tds per attempt
Aaron Brown 45 .089 or almost 9 per 100 throws
Drew Brees 46 .070 or 7 per 100 throws.
Compare that to the year before – 2010 season
QB tds per attempt 2011 tds per attempt 2010 Improvement
Aaron Brown .089 .058 53%
Drew Brees .070 .050 40%
You think that the new rules protecting the quarterbacks and receivers had anything to do with it? Let’s look at the top ten quarterback passing ratings for the last two years.
Cell phones – what do we do with them other than call someone? (Pew)
Text messaging 73%
Access internet 44%
Email 38%
Game 35%
Music 34%
Record video 34%
Download app. 31%
Social network 29%
Watch video 26%
Post photo/video 22%
Online banking 18%
Twitter 6%
Video call/chat 6%
How long before we even have laptops anymore?
Incidence rates of cancer by state 2003-2007 (A Cancer Journal for Clinicians [2011])
Highest –Maine
Lowest – NewMexico
Track & Field records over 100 years
100 meters
1912 10.6 Donald Lippincott
2009 9.58 Usain Bolt
% Improvement - .096
400 meters
1912 48.2 Charles Reidpath
1999 43.18 Michael Johnson
% improvement - .104
800 meters
1912 1.51.9 Ted Meredith
2010 1.41.01 David Rudisha
% improvement - .097
Mile
1913 4.14.4 John Paul Jones
% improvement - .123
I skipped the 200 meters because there wasn’t a record in the early 20th century. The interesting thing is to notice the relatively small band of improvement in all four races - all of them roughly around 10%. I wonder what would happen if we take the records for a plane and a car what the improvement would be. Obviously, it has to be a lot more as technology improves a lot faster than evolution.
4 wheel driven land speed record - MPH
1914 124.09 L.G. Hornstead
2010 414.316 Charles E. Nearburg
% improvement – 333.88
Propeller driven airplane - MPH
1912 108.14 Jules Vedrines
1960* 541.45 Ivan Soukhomline
% improvement – 500.01
*still the record today over 60 years later. Interestingly, when they tried in 1989 – the jet era, the fastest propeller plane was a little slower than the fastest almost 30 years before. But, this is because we’ve moved on in what we concentrate on.
In other words, our fastest runners have improved a fraction in a hundred years but technology has propelled our vehicles over three to five times faster – 3-500 percent over a 100 years. Of course, if I included jet or rocket propulsion, the speed of vehicles, land or air, goes up dramatically – particularly in the air.
Geography
– people per sq. kilometer
Monaco
Mongolia
- largest islands
Greenland
New
Guinea
Borneo
Madagascar
Baffin (Can.
Sumatra
Honshu (Jap.)
Great
Britain
Victoria (Can.
Ellesmere (Can.
Greenland , the largest, is
roughly 11 times the size of Ellesmere, the tenth largest.
-tallest mountains by continent
Asia –Mount Everest - 29,035
ft. *
S. America –Aconcagua –
22,831
N. America –Mount
McKinley
Africa –Mount Kilimanjaro –
19, 563
Europe –Mount Elbrus – 18,
481
Anarctica –Vinson Massif –
16,066
*By convention, and as every kid knows (at least in my day), Everest is the tallest mountain in the world. But,Mauna Kea , Hawaii
Religions inAmerica
Christian – 78.4
Other religions – 4.7
Unaffiliated – 16.1
Christian – 78.4
Protestant – 51.3
Catholic – 23.9
Mormon – 1.7
Jehovah Witness - 0.7
Orthodox - 0.6
Other Christian – 0.3
Other religions – 4.7
Jewish – 1.7
Buddhist – 0.7
Muslim – 0.6
Hindu – 0.4
Other** - 1.7
Unaffiliated – 16.1
Atheist – 1.6***
Agnostic – 2.4***
Secular unaffiliated – 6.3
Religious unaffiliated – 5.8
Refused to answer/don’t know – 0.8
*Some might argue as to where certain small groups belong. E.g., many Christians claim Mormonism is not Christianity. Mormons disagree. Ditto, some Orthodox Jews claim Reform and Conservative Jews aren’t Jewish, although this is more an issue inIsrael than in America
** Lumping in other world religions and things like Unitarians.
***Other studies show a surprising number of those who call themselves atheists or agnostics also say they believe in God. So, you might split them up in the religious unaffiliated group too.
Politics inAmerica
Mainline Prot. 41 33 10 6
Hist. Black 10 78 6 6
Catholic 33 48 10 9
Mormons 65 22 8 5
Orthodox 35 50 8 7
Jeh. Wit. 10 15 14 61
Other Christ. 25 55 14 5
Jews 23 65 8 3
Muslims 11 73 10 16
Buddhists 18 67 9 6
Hindu 13 43 13 11
Other rel. 13 66 15 5
Unaffil. 23 55 15 8
*Or leans that way. That’s a pretty stark divide and one of the best predictors of political beliefs. Mainstream religious – more likely Republican; minority religious or unaffiliated – more likely Democratic. Other than Jeh. Witness, who tend to be more independent (possibly apolitical is my guess), independents were fairly even across the board, with Muslims and Hindus being a little more likely than others to be so.
Trends in approving or favoring gay marriage (Pew)
Oppose Favor
2001 57 35
2011 45 47
Percentage of adults with cataracts
40-49 2.5
50-59 6.8
60-69 20.0
60-79 42.8
80+ 68.3
Death rates per 100,000 (CDC/2010) – note, these are not percents
Heart disease 178.5
Malignant neoplasms 172.5
(e.g., cancer, growths)
Chronic lower 42.1
Respiratory disease
(bronch./emphy.)
Cerebrovascular 39.0
(stroke)
Alzheimer’s 25.0
Diabetes Melitus 20.8
Nephritis, etc. 15.3
(kidney)
Flu/pneumonia 15.1
Suicide 11.9
Septicemia 10.6
(bacterial infection)
Chronic liver, etc. 9.4
Hypertension, etc. 7.9
Parkinson’s 6.8
Pneumonitis 5.1
(lung inflammation)
Note – homicide as a cause of death has dropped off the top 15 list.
Good enough for today. Go read some stats.
What states have the best average Sat scores as
of last year?
State Math Writing Combined
1 Illinois
2 Minnesota
3 Iowa 596 606 575
4 Wisconsin 590 602 575
5 Missouri
6 Michigan
7 N. Dakota 586 612 561
8 Kansas
9 Nebraska
10 S. Dakota 584 591 562
You might notice that they are all
Try the worst. D.C. is included, and, as we know from the news, last. Notice that most of them are on the east coast and in all cases, coastal.
State Math Writing Combined
42
43 Nevada
44 Delaware
45 Hawaii
46 Florida
47 Texas
48 Georgia
49 S. Carolina
482 490 464
50 Maine
51 D.C. 469 457 459
Switch to football. Drew Brees threw more touchdown passes
than anyone in the NFL last year – 46 to Aaron Brown’s 45. But, per attempt,
Brown blew him away.
QB no. of tds tds per attempt
Aaron Brown 45 .089 or almost 9 per 100 throws
Drew Brees 46 .070 or 7 per 100 throws.
Compare that to the year before – 2010 season
QB tds per attempt 2011 tds per attempt 2010 Improvement
Aaron Brown .089 .058 53%
Drew Brees .070 .050 40%
You think that the new rules protecting the quarterbacks and receivers had anything to do with it? Let’s look at the top ten quarterback passing ratings for the last two years.
QB 2011
rating 2010 rating
Aaron Rodgers 122.5 101.2
Drew Brees 110.6 90.9
Tom Brady 105.6 111.0
Tony Romo 102.5 --.--
Matt Stafford 97.2 --.--
Matt Schaub 96.8 92.0
Eli Manning 92.9 85.3
Matt Ryan 92.2 91.0
Alex Smith 90.7 82.1
Ben Roethlisberger 90.1 97.0 (and he played hurt for a while)
Philip Rivers
87.7 101.8
Matt Moore 87.1 55.6
Black – improved rating
red – lowered rating
Only two qb's had better seasons the year before – for Tom Brady, who
always performs so well, it almost doesn’t matter (1st in 2010, 3rd
last year) and Phillip Rivers, who was sensational the year before (2nd)
and so bad, comparatively, this last year that there were articles about what
happened to Phillip Rivers?
Cell phones – what do we do with them other than call someone? (Pew)
Text messaging 73%
Take a picture 73%
Send a photo/video 54%
Access internet 44%
Email 38%
Game 35%
Music 34%
Record video 34%
Download app. 31%
Social network 29%
Watch video 26%
Post photo/video 22%
Online banking 18%
Twitter 6%
Video call/chat 6%
How long before we even have laptops anymore?
Incidence rates of cancer by state 2003-2007 (A Cancer Journal for Clinicians [2011])
Highest –
Lowest – New
Track & Field records over 100 years
100 meters
1912 10.6 Donald Lippincott
2009 9.58 Usain Bolt
% Improvement - .096
400 meters
1912 48.2 Charles Reidpath
1999 43.18 Michael Johnson
% improvement - .104
800 meters
1912 1.51.9 Ted Meredith
2010 1.41.01 David Rudisha
% improvement - .097
Mile
1913 4.14.4 John Paul Jones
1998 3.43.13 Hicham
El Guerrouj
% improvement - .123
I skipped the 200 meters because there wasn’t a record in the early 20th century. The interesting thing is to notice the relatively small band of improvement in all four races - all of them roughly around 10%. I wonder what would happen if we take the records for a plane and a car what the improvement would be. Obviously, it has to be a lot more as technology improves a lot faster than evolution.
4 wheel driven land speed record - MPH
1914 124.09 L.G. Hornstead
2010 414.316 Charles E. Nearburg
% improvement – 333.88
Propeller driven airplane - MPH
1912 108.14 Jules Vedrines
1960* 541.45 Ivan Soukhomline
% improvement – 500.01
*still the record today over 60 years later. Interestingly, when they tried in 1989 – the jet era, the fastest propeller plane was a little slower than the fastest almost 30 years before. But, this is because we’ve moved on in what we concentrate on.
In other words, our fastest runners have improved a fraction in a hundred years but technology has propelled our vehicles over three to five times faster – 3-500 percent over a 100 years. Of course, if I included jet or rocket propulsion, the speed of vehicles, land or air, goes up dramatically – particularly in the air.
Geography
– people per sq. kilometer
- largest islands
Baffin (
Victoria (
Ellesmere (
-tallest mountains by continent
Asia –
S. America –
N. America –
Africa –
Europe –
Anarctica –
*By convention, and as every kid knows (at least in my day), Everest is the tallest mountain in the world. But,
Religions in
Christian – 78.4
Other religions – 4.7
Unaffiliated – 16.1
Further breakdown by religion
Christian – 78.4
Protestant – 51.3
Catholic – 23.9
Mormon – 1.7
Jehovah Witness - 0.7
Orthodox - 0.6
Other Christian – 0.3
Other religions – 4.7
Jewish – 1.7
Buddhist – 0.7
Muslim – 0.6
Hindu – 0.4
Other** - 1.7
Unaffiliated – 16.1
Atheist – 1.6***
Agnostic – 2.4***
Secular unaffiliated – 6.3
Religious unaffiliated – 5.8
Refused to answer/don’t know – 0.8
*Some might argue as to where certain small groups belong. E.g., many Christians claim Mormonism is not Christianity. Mormons disagree. Ditto, some Orthodox Jews claim Reform and Conservative Jews aren’t Jewish, although this is more an issue in
** Lumping in other world religions and things like Unitarians.
***Other studies show a surprising number of those who call themselves atheists or agnostics also say they believe in God. So, you might split them up in the religious unaffiliated group too.
Politics in
Rep.* Dem.* Indep. Other/nopref./ref’d/dk
Evangelicals 50 34 9 7
Mainline Prot. 41 33 10 6
Hist. Black 10 78 6 6
Catholic 33 48 10 9
Mormons 65 22 8 5
Orthodox 35 50 8 7
Jeh. Wit. 10 15 14 61
Other Christ. 25 55 14 5
Jews 23 65 8 3
Muslims 11 73 10 16
Buddhists 18 67 9 6
Hindu 13 43 13 11
Other rel. 13 66 15 5
Unaffil. 23 55 15 8
*Or leans that way. That’s a pretty stark divide and one of the best predictors of political beliefs. Mainstream religious – more likely Republican; minority religious or unaffiliated – more likely Democratic. Other than Jeh. Witness, who tend to be more independent (possibly apolitical is my guess), independents were fairly even across the board, with Muslims and Hindus being a little more likely than others to be so.
Trends in approving or favoring gay marriage (Pew)
Oppose Favor
2001 57 35
2011 45 47
Percentage of adults with cataracts
40-49 2.5
50-59 6.8
60-69 20.0
60-79 42.8
80+ 68.3
Death rates per 100,000 (CDC/2010) – note, these are not percents
Heart disease 178.5
Malignant neoplasms 172.5
(e.g., cancer, growths)
Chronic lower 42.1
Respiratory disease
(bronch./emphy.)
Cerebrovascular 39.0
(stroke)
Accidents 37.1
Alzheimer’s 25.0
Diabetes Melitus 20.8
Nephritis, etc. 15.3
(kidney)
Flu/pneumonia 15.1
Suicide 11.9
Septicemia 10.6
(bacterial infection)
Chronic liver, etc. 9.4
Hypertension, etc. 7.9
Parkinson’s 6.8
Pneumonitis 5.1
(lung inflammation)
Note – homicide as a cause of death has dropped off the top 15 list.
Good enough for today. Go read some stats.
Two issues: on the SAT's, how can the average combined scores be so much lower than the average scores in each area? If the ave math score is 400 and the ave verbal score is 600 then the ave combined score should be 1000. Since the national average score is in the 900's something is off in your combined scores.... Secondly, football - Aaron Brown was a nondescript back up QB for the Giants. He never threw 45 td passes in a season. Did you mean Aaron Rodgers???
ReplyDeleteI think you have toooo much time on your hands.
ReplyDeleteBear: I know (SAT). Those are the scores though. I found them on two sites and did not look into it to understand the scoring.
ReplyDeleteOn Aaron - aaarghh. I always call him Aaron Brown. I used to know an Aaron Brown and I can't get it out of my head even with that commercial where the cheesehead screams out RODGERS!!!!!
Oh, well. If I don't make a typo, it means I have too much time on my hands. Which brings me to -
Anonymous - Yes. I was thinking the same thing.