December 9, 2013
Stat of the Week Competition Discussion: December 7 – 13 2013
If you’d like to comment on or debate any of this week’s Stat of the Week nominations, please do so below!
Rachel Cunliffe is the co-director of CensusAtSchool and currently consults for the Department of Statistics. Her interests include statistical literacy, social media and blogging. See all posts by Rachel Cunliffe »
The depression story was really peculiar. I can’t help wondering if the writer was determined to talk up the story despite the figures, because this was the issue that John Kirwan edited …
11 years ago
The other explanation is that they might really have some data showing that the people who do two lessons aren’t terribly unrepresentative of registrants.
11 years ago
I think the food prices story is mostly an ambiguous sentence.
[expert] said food prices had been creeping up by $2 a week over the last three decades
I’m pretty sure he means an annual increase of $2 in the average weekly expenditure. More of a problem is the invocation of people on fixed incomes. I can’t think of any group whose nominal income is the same as three decades ago. And in most cases even real incomes are up a bit.
11 years ago
So who was stat of the week winner for the week before last?
11 years ago
No winner was awarded that week.
11 years ago
Was that deliberate or an oversight?
11 years ago