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The odds of a criminal using technical means to bypass a security system are so small that the FBI doesn't even track those statistics.

Recent statistics suggest 30％ or more of college students cheat.

Its statistics look embarrassing.

It is vulnerable to criticism if the statistics are closely examined

Experts believe the boxes from Air France Flight 447, which crashed near Brazil on June 1,2009, are in water nearly that deep, but statistics say they're still likely to turn up.

Statistics show that the way people live determines the way they eat.

The United States Department of Agriculture and the food industry collect sales statistics and keep accurate records

I was about to drop statistics before they helped me out.

Statistics and logic are both challenging subjects

That sounds tempting, but I won't be ready till 5, as I've got my statistic seminar now.

Thoughts turn first to some sort of global statistic, some indicator which would rate the wealth of nations in both economic and environmental terms and show a relationship between the two.

Nearly 2.2 million people die a year because of diarrhea-related diseases, according to WHO statistics.

Measuring emissions is not a precise science, particularly when it comes to issues surrounding land use; not all nations have released up-to-date data, and in any case, emissions from some sectors such as aviation are not included in national statistics.

It is actually quite difficult to find reliable statistics on the issue for many schools.

The dry statistics ought to inform the ongoing deficit debate, because a budget is not just a catalog of programs and taxes.

Collectively, we rely on the unemployment figures and other statistics to frame our sense of reality.

The problem is that the statistics aren't an objective measure of reality; they are simply a best approximation

What does the author think of the unemployment figures and other statistics?

At the end of the passage, the author suggests that decision makers view the statistics with a critical eye.

decision makers view the statistics with a critical eye.

Applicants with sound knowledge in math and statistics.

Unfortunately, that conclusion puts too much weight on a useful, but flawed and incomplete, statistic.

Working with the American Statistical Association, the journal has appointed seven experts to astatistics board of reviewing editors.

The journalScienceis adding an extra round of statistical checks to its peer-review process, editor-in-chief Marcia McNutt announced today.

Researchers should improve their standards, he wrote in2012, but journals should also take a tougher line, “engaging reviewers who are statistically literate and editors who can verify the process”.

Professional scientists are expected to know how to analyze data, but statistical errors are alarmingly common in published research, according to David Vaux, a cell biologist.

Most journals are weak in statistical review, and this damages the quality of what they publish.

I think that, for the majority of scientific papers nowadays, statistical review is more essential than expert review,” he says.

But he noted that biomedical journals such as Annals of Internal Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancetpay strong attention to statistical review.

Asked whether any particular papers had impelled the change, McNutt said: “The creation of the ‘statistics board’ was motivated by concerns broadly with the application of statistics and data analysis in scientific research and is part of Science’s overall drive to increase reproducibility in the research we publish.