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Title: Concern over statistics
Post by: on September 05, 2007, 01:48:07 pm

The amount of statistics generated each year have reached alarming proportions, a Whitehall think tank has revealed. 

 

A civil service spokesman Bob Clowne said, "The number of statistics have increased year on year, since 1981.  However, we have seen a rise of around 3.1% more than the national average since 2003".

 

Apparently according to the Office of National statistics enough statistics are generated each year to fill a town the size of Hereford.

 

 

Title: Concern over statistics
Post by: loulou on September 06, 2007, 09:20:54 am

How big is Hereford?

Title: Concern over statistics
Post by: on September 06, 2007, 02:17:15 pm

About the size of Gateshead

Title: Concern over statistics
Post by: naxos on September 06, 2007, 08:23:47 pm

Take no notice. 87% of statistics are made up.

Title: Concern over statistics
Post by: wjp666 on September 06, 2007, 11:40:12 pm

... but there's only a 10% chance of that.

Title: Concern over statistics
Post by: loulou on September 06, 2007, 11:44:38 pm

I think it's 50/50

Title: Concern over statistics
Post by: goldencup on September 07, 2007, 12:09:06 am

Lies and Damned Lies.

Title: Concern over statistics
Post by: on September 07, 2007, 08:09:11 pm

Binomial Distribution, Cluster Sampling , Confidence Interval for a Mean, Confidence Limits, Differencing, Inter-Quartile Range (IQR), Law of Total Probability, Median, Observed Frequencies,Pearson's Product Moment Correlation Coefficient and Relative Frequency.

Statistically speaking of course.

Title: Concern over statistics
Post by: loulou on September 08, 2007, 07:37:39 pm

Cluster Sampling sounds like it could be a fun type of hobby.

Title: Concern over statistics
Post by: on September 08, 2007, 07:48:13 pm

Do you know what I mean?