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

To seasoned readers of Stats Chat, the contradiction in the first two sentences of this article will be glaringly obvious:

“A survey released yesterday has found at least four in five Kiwis refuse to leave home without their smartphone in hand.

The survey, carried out by 2degrees on Facebook, asked 357 smartphone users about their habits.”

Meanwhile, there’s a better article about cellphones over here:

“As many as three in five New Zealanders own a smartphone, an online survey by British-based market researcher TNS shows.

Based on the 500 responses it received to its survey, TNS estimated smartphone ownership had jumped from 33 per cent to 60 per cent over the past year.

The fact that the survey was conducted online could mean it overstated the prevalence of devices such as smartphones.

Other surveys have put smartphone ownership at close to, or in some cases slightly above, 50 per cent.”

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 May 23 2014.
• Statistics can be bad, exemplary or fascinating.
• The statistic must be in the NZ media during the period of May 17 – 23 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.

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

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 May 16 2014.
• Statistics can be bad, exemplary or fascinating.
• The statistic must be in the NZ media during the period of May 10 – 16 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.

(more…)

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

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 May 9 2014.
• Statistics can be bad, exemplary or fascinating.
• The statistic must be in the NZ media during the period of May 3 – 9 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.

(more…)

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

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 May 2 2014.
• Statistics can be bad, exemplary or fascinating.
• The statistic must be in the NZ media during the period of April 26 – May 2 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.

(more…)

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