Nigel Hawkes Blog Listing
Nigel Hawkes
is Director of Straight Statistics. As a journalist he has written about science, health, and international affairs, mostly for The Observer and The Times.
Nigel Hawkes :: Wed 10th Mar 2010
Gove vs Balls: seconds out!
Statisticians have rushed hither and yon to umpire the row between Michael Gove and Ed Balls in the Commons over whether – as Mr Gove claimed – only 45 of the 80,000 children
Nigel Hawkes :: Tue 9th Mar 2010
Can U afford Man U?
Wild excitement must have gripped readers of The Guardian on Saturday, when they read on Page 1 of the sports section that Manchester United was valued at a mere £800,000,
Nigel Hawkes :: Fri 5th Mar 2010
Political Plotting
The political blogging site Left Foot Forward, which represents itself as an “evidence –based analysis of British politics” yesterday published a bold extrapolation of recen
Nigel Hawkes :: Mon 1st Mar 2010
The Guardian gets its bugs in a twist
The Guardian has an entertaining story today about the number of bugs in Britain's soil. Apparently they've doubled in number in the past decade.
Nigel Hawkes :: Mon 15th Feb 2010
More misconceived numbers from the Conservatives
Getting a decimal point in the wrong place “makes no difference”, according to a Conservative Party spokesman, after a document issued by the party multiplied the number of teenag
Nigel Hawkes :: Thu 11th Feb 2010
Home Office muddle over DNA profiles
Just how far will the Home Office go to justify the retention of DNA profiles from people arrested but not found guilty of any crime?
Nigel Hawkes :: Mon 8th Feb 2010
Set a thief to catch a thief?
Lucky old Greeks. They’ve got themselves into enough of an economic muddle to have to take lectures from the EU on getting their statistics in order.
Nigel Hawkes :: Wed 3rd Feb 2010
Conservatives’ crime claims challenged
Mark Easton of the BBC has taken a swing at the Conservatives’ use of crime statistics to support David Cameron's claims of a “broken society”.
Nigel Hawkes :: Tue 2nd Feb 2010
We're usually right, claims the ONS
ONS has defended its estimates of GDP growth, which have been attacked by economists as excessively gloomy.
