September 8, 2014

Stat of the Week Competition: September 6 – 12 2014

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Each week, we would like to invite readers of Stats Chat to submit nominations for our Stat of the Week competition and be in with the chance to win an iTunes voucher.

Here’s how it works:

  • Anyone may add a comment on this post to nominate their Stat of the Week candidate before midday Friday September 12 2014.
  • Statistics can be bad, exemplary or fascinating.
  • The statistic must be in the NZ media during the period of September 6 – 12 2014 inclusive.
  • Quote the statistic, when and where it was published and tell us why it should be our Stat of the Week.

Next Monday at midday we’ll announce the winner of this week’s Stat of the Week competition, and start a new one.

The fine print:

  • Judging will be conducted by the blog moderator in liaison with staff at the Department of Statistics, The University of Auckland.
  • The judges’ decision will be final.
  • The judges can decide not to award a prize if they do not believe a suitable statistic has been posted in the preceeding week.
  • Only the first nomination of any individual example of a statistic used in the NZ media will qualify for the competition.
  • Individual posts on Stats Chat are just the opinions of their authors, who can criticise anyone who they feel deserves it, but the Stat of the Week award involves the Department of Statistics more officially. For that reason, we will not award Stat of the Week for a statistic coming from anyone at the University of Auckland outside the Statistics department. You can still nominate and discuss them, but the nomination won’t be eligible for the prize.
  • Employees (other than student employees) of the Statistics department at the University of Auckland are not eligible to win.
  • The person posting the winning entry will receive a $20 iTunes voucher.
  • The blog moderator will contact the winner via their notified email address and advise the details of the $20 iTunes voucher to that same email address.
  • The competition will commence Monday 8 August 2011 and continue until cancellation is notified on the blog.
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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 »

Nominations

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    Amy Linford

    Statistic: It has Labour at an all-time low of 25% and the Green Party at an all-time high at 14%, with 12% of voters still undecided about who they will support.
    Source: One News
    Date: Friday 12th September 2014

    The Green Party is at an all time high whilst the Labour Party is at an all time low.
    This does not appear to be very good for Labour! (Although, as a national supporter, I smile as this statement!)
    Despite the statistics in the news article being horrifically presented with no indication of how long “all time” is (this election? every election since the start of New Zealand history?), the statistics paint an interesting picture of where New Zealander’s are aligning their values. It appears that the evidence presented by various articles and studies indicating that there is a dominant impact of global warming has sunk in and Kiwis are clearly becoming more and more concerned with the environment of our beautiful country.
    And, of course, this is a delicious statistic provided by the latest Colmar Brunton poll, which should indicate that the statistic is correct and true.

    10 years ago