Hullo allstat,
The BBC has started a weekly article series on common statistics in
news articles, and the obvious vs. the correct way to interpret them.
The articles are essentially exposés of common ways of duping the
layman. If you've got people not interested in learning statistics per
se, I think this is excellent material for making them more savvy.
Four articles have appeared so far:
1. Surveys. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7542886.stm
2. Estimates and counting. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7542886.stm
3. Percentages. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7568929.stm
4. Averages. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7581120.stm
Installments appear every Tuesday on the BBC magazine web page.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/default.stm
The series is written by Michael Blastland, who with Andrew Dilnot
wrote "The Tiger That Isn't" on, I understand, much the same subject.
http://www.profilebooks.com/title.php?titleissue_id=453
Cheers,
Sietse
Sietse Brouwer
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