September 28, 2015

Stat of the Week Competition Discussion: September 26 – October 2 2015

If you’d like to comment on or debate any of this week’s Stat of the Week nominations, please do so below!

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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 »

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    Thomas Lumley

    On the Bill English quote, the key phrase is “new homes”

    I think the only reasonable reading (which, admittedly, took me a few tries) is that new homes used to cost about as much as existing homes, with 30% of new homes in the lowest quarter of home prices, and 30% of new homes in the highest quarter of home pricies. Now, new homes are more expensive than existing homes. Only 5% of new homes are in the lowest-priced quarter of all homes and 60% of new homes are in the highest-priced quarter.

    This would probably be clearer in a live speech — emphasis would help.

    9 years ago