In 1798 Thomas Malthus postulated his gloomy theory that the growth in population must always outstrip the means of subsistence needed to support it: “Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only [more…]
Ah Cricket – the wonderful sound of leather on willow followed by a cucumber sandwich and cup of tea. Rather coldly defined on Wikipedia as “a bat and ball game played between two teams of [more…]
I’ve often wondered whether there is a time in a football match that is the most likely point at which a goal might be scored. Perhaps in the first few minutes when the goalie is [more…]
First though, I hope this was anonymous. (Wikimedia Commons) UN Phone Survey Last month, a world-wide telephone survey was conducted by the UN. The only question asked was: “Would you please give your honest opinion [more…]
I was bored the other day and decided to download the Office of National Statistics Weekly Death data for England and Wales for the last 5 years (as you do). It can be found here [more…]
On January 11th, the BBC and Sky each made great play of ‘the worst excess deaths since the second world war’ announced for 2020. This clearly conveyed a message that the corona virus was indeed [more…]
My final article in my wee trilogy on data interpretation I examine who benefits from the manipulation of state data. It is usually sound policy when investigating the often bizarre antics of the state to [more…]
Apologies for returning to Covid-19 for examples of data oddities. But the situation coughs up, pardon the phrase, more anomalies every day. If Boris had read statistics not classics he would have spotted them. I [more…]
Many years ago part of my professional exams included data interpretation, I studied further as my research role expanded to include pension fund management & mortality statistics. I particularly enjoyed distance learning with Austin University, [more…]
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