Author Topic: Concern over statistics (Read 1500 times)

« **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.

loulou · « **Reply #1 on:** September 06, 2007, 09:20:54 am »

How big is Hereford?

« **Reply #2 on:** September 06, 2007, 02:17:15 pm »

About the size of Gateshead

naxos · « **Reply #3 on:** September 06, 2007, 08:23:47 pm »

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

wjp666 · « **Reply #4 on:** September 06, 2007, 11:40:12 pm »

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

loulou · « **Reply #5 on:** September 06, 2007, 11:44:38 pm »

I think it's 50/50

goldencup · « **Reply #6 on:** September 07, 2007, 12:09:06 am »

Lies and Damned Lies.

« **Reply #7 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.

loulou · « **Reply #8 on:** September 08, 2007, 07:37:39 pm »

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

« **Reply #9 on:** September 08, 2007, 07:48:13 pm »

Do you know what I mean?

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