Blogs about: Statistics And Simplicity
Hospital wards
radiator wrote 10 months ago: This one, as they say, will run and run. The government has just announced that hospitals will not b … more →
Whatever happened to bird flu?
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radiator wrote 11 months ago: Now we’re in full flu and norovirus season, I wondered what had happened to bird flu. In 2006 … more →
Knife crime
radiator wrote 11 months ago: I woke up today to hear a very hyped story about murders involving knifes. The Conservatives, needin … more →
Accidents
radiator wrote 11 months ago: I’ve had a new baby, and two children take up all your time, so I’ve not added to this b … more →
Sceptical about climate change?
radiator wrote 1 year ago: This is the story that’s made me the most angry in recent months, but I missed writing about i … more →
Daylight robbery
radiator wrote 1 year ago: I meant to write about this a month ago, but it slipped my mind. Anyway, a local news story of a ban … more →
Girls and crime: media and statistics again
radiator wrote 1 year ago: All day I’ve heard and seen headlines stating ‘crimes by girls rise by a quarter’. … more →
Dads needed at birth?
radiator wrote 1 year ago: This week saw much discussion of a statement of the bleedin’ obvious. The Fatherhood Institute … more →
Anti-social behaviour, alcohol and public space
radiator wrote 1 year ago: Although anti-social behaviour (ASB) is largely associated with ‘rough’, i.e. poor estat … more →
Work brings freedom?
radiator wrote 1 year ago: Our government’s obsession with workfare in order to prove that it’s not soft on the und … more →
Big savings in insurance?
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radiator wrote 1 year ago: A few weeks ago I received a bit of junk mail from RIAS that’s led me to the most amusing use … more →
Democracy
radiator wrote 1 year ago: Here’s a very quick comment relating to two recent stories about democracy in Afghanistan and … more →
Booze
radiator wrote 1 year ago: This week has seen a load of noise about alcohol, and in particular ‘binge drinking’ and … more →
Pay rises
radiator wrote 1 year ago: Last month’s stories about police pay again show how journalists can’t do maths (also se … more →
If only people stayed still
radiator wrote 2 years ago: My PC died… so it’s been a while. The moral panic about bing drinking rumbles on. Yes, p … more →
Foreign babies?
radiator wrote 2 years ago: In the news the other week: 25% of babies born in the UK have at least one foreign parent (http://po … more →
IQ and intelligence
radiator wrote 2 years ago: Today on Radio 4’s Today programme was a statement which brilliantly shows the problem of ‘correlati … more →
Drugs and alcohol
radiator wrote 2 years ago: More hyped nonsense this week about cannabis (whether it is ‘dangerous’ by causing psych … more →
Grammar schools
radiator wrote 2 years ago: A very quick post here, about grammar schools and Graham Brady, the Conservative MP who is no longer … more →
