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Re: Reasons for asymptote

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"Macfarlane, Alison" <[log in to unmask]>

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Tue, 14 Apr 2020 20:07:19 +0000

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Allan is not the only person to notice that the statistical presentation in some of the coronavirus  press briefings are not up to the standards we should like to expect. This is hardly surprising, given the pressure that the people producing them are likely to be working under, with high profile daily press conferences, every day, including bank holidays. Rather than spend time slagging the people concerned off behind their backs on allstat, perhaps an email to the organisation concerned, commenting on  ways of improving the presentations might be more constructive.

As a long standing subscriber to Radical Statistics, which has a long tradition of aiming for constructive criticism of government statistics, I am concerned that we are soliciting destructive criticism of this sort.

Of course, if a group of government statisticians found itself at a loose end and decided to write an article giving examples of poor presentation of statistics by academics, it would have a field day!

As allstat is not a discussion list, I will say no more, except that I think there are better ways of improving the standard of presentation of statistics across the board.

Alison Macfarlane
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Thanks Allan.
Would you or anyone care to do a short article on stats in government
presentations? This is for a special coronavirus issue of Radical
Statistics.

Other topics also welcome. Max 2000 words by 1st May please.

Please forward to anyone who might be interested.

John BIBBY

On Mon, 13 Apr 2020, 18:26 Allan Reese, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Today's Downing Street briefing on Covid19 included a line graph of
> numbers of patients in hospital with Covid19. The top line for London
> went over "4K" but appears to be levelling out in the last week. What
> would be helpful would be a reference line for the number of beds
> available in those hospitals - not obvious that the line demonstrates
> less demand rather than saturation.
>
> Also to note that the COBR (Cabinet Office Briefing Room) appear to pay
> little attention to informative labelling. The Y axis is labelled "0K,
> 2K, 4K" which is insultingly nerdy - do they mean 4000 or 4096? I doubt
> such "illiteracy" would be tolerated in the Civil Service for the text
> in a news release. It's boilerplate Excel, exported without revision.
>
> Allan
>
> --
> R Allan Reese, Dorchester Dorset
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