FIRST ORDINARY MEETING OF THE 176th SESSION TUESDAY 14th OCTOBER 2008 at
5.45pm (tea and biscuits available from 5.20pm), Manchester Cathedral
Visitor Centre, 10 Cateaton Street, Manchester M3 1SQ. Tel: 0161 835 4030
RAY THOMAS Open University TWO ASPECTS OF STATISTICS - FACTS AND IDEAS
Synopsis: Manchester Statistical Society and the Royal Statistical Society
provide contrasting approaches to the subject matter. MSS focuses on
statistics as “facts about society”, but nowadays the RSS focuses on “the
science of statistics”. The paper considers some of the implications of this
contrast of foci – in terms of the contribution of statistics to public
policy making and to the interest of the statistics profession.
(Ray Thomas is a graduate of the University of Keele and took an MSc in
Information Technology at Coventry University. He wrote a dissertation on
the functions of statistics for PhD at the Open University. He is a member
of Manchester Statistical Society. He has been an activist in the UK Radical
Statistics Group and has written papers for Radical Statistics Journal, for
RSS News, for Significance and for the new international statistics journal
Datacritica.)
The Statistical Dinner Club will meet following the meeting to entertain the
speaker to dinner and to enjoy a further informal discussion, which will end
at no later than 10.00 pm. All those attending the meeting are eligible to
attend. The charge (including membership of the Club for the evening) is £21
each. Please complete the slip below and return to Brenda Ilett, including
payment made payable to Statistical Dinner Club by Friday 10th October 2008.
lease print name(s) & tick as appropriate: The following will be attending:
Name(s) meeting only/meeting and dinner.
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