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Sent: 28 August 2008 13:47
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Subject: BBC article series on misleading news statistics
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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