Posts Tagged ‘stats’

Are you about to die?

Posted on: October 2, 2009

Yay, it’s highly unlikely that I’m going to die in the next year. Actually around 1 in 1000. If I was American. But I’m not, I’m Scottish. So should probably double that to 1 in 500. Still, decent odds eh.
Also good news for men: if we survive to 115 then the odds of us [...]

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Picture this

Posted on: September 15, 2009

Love this chart.
We should all know that on the scale of big, fat lies there are lies, damn lies, statistics and then there are charts. The scales are meaningless to me — is a reading score of 500 good, bad, genius, meaningless? I’ve no clue. But the people that believe in government spending also seem [...]

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