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Are you interested in, or confused by, statistics?
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There is a fascinating series on Radio 4 every Friday about the use and abuse of statistics. Last week they exposed, amongst other things, some of the extremely misleading statistics being used by the government and unions regarding public sector pensions. It's all done with a lot of humour.
Here's a link to details of the programme that's on later this afternoon.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017x76r
Here's a link to details of the programme that's on later this afternoon.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017x76r
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To give you the flavour, here are some recent programmes- just use Listen Again and dip in
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qshd
To give you the flavour, here are some recent programmes- just use Listen Again and dip in
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qshd
try these: a man was accused in court of killing his wife. He had been known to beat her up. The defence counsel declared, quite truthfully " of all men who bash their wives, only one in a thousand goes on to kill her". The prosecutor replied with " Of every woman who was proved to have been killed by her husband, one in every two was previously bashed by the same man". Both statistics are perfectly true.
He was convicted, by the way.
He was convicted, by the way.
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