Spurious accuracy seduces journalists time and time again
An insidious abuse of statistics is spurious accuracy.
The Guardian
The cost of illegal drugs
Polly Toynbee claims in her Guardian column today that the cost of the cur
Cut-and-Paste journalists create a myth
“Rise of the high-flying wives who leave hubby in the home” wrote the Daily Mail.
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,
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.
H1N1 risks and pregnant women
In today’s Guardian, Professor David Salisbury, Director of Immunisation at the Department of Health, is quoted as saying that H1N1 vaccine is completely safe for pregnant women.
£6 million Blueprint down the drain
In Saturday’s Guardian, Ben Goldacre dismembered a Home Office study designed to evaluate a drug education project in schools.
PCC rules on depressed zero
The complaint made by Straight Statistics reader John Huggins to the Press Complaints Commission against The Guardian has been rejected.
Zeroing in on youth unemployment
A Straight Statistics reader, John Huggins, has taken exception to a graphic in The Guardian, illustrating the rise in youth unemployment.
A slice of ham from the WCRF
“Don’t give your children ham” says the World Cancer Research Fund today, claiming that 3,700 cases of bowel cancer a year could be prevented in the UK if everyone ate less than 70g of processed meat a week.
