Archive for the 'Statistrickery' Category

Worried about stabbings? Don’t be

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

Here’s a nice report by a real statistician on how London’s low murder rate is nothing to worry about unless you’re a gibbering paranoid ignorant fool.

Unsurprisingly, it’s received almost no media play at all. I mean, what news value is there in a study proving that the ‘OMG t3H knife crime!!!!’ narrative is bollocks and that there’s nothing to worry about…?

Popularity: 16% [?]

Fraser Nelson: ignorance and paranoia, in one simple package

Friday, March 13th, 2009

Dumbing down, and that’s just the fogeyish commentators

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

99% of men are rapists or nose-pickers

Friday, March 6th, 2009

‘How Racist Are The BNP?’

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

The BBC do my job, again

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Traditional ‘where’s your grammar?’ line

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Violence most horrid

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

Furniture, nudity thereof

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

In which your host is proved right

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008