Sunday, 10 November 2013
Guardian Statistics Teaching Examples
BBC Statistics Teaching Examples
- BBC News - Viewpoint: We should stop running away from radiation
- BBC News - Breast cancer drug tamoxifen recommended for 'high risk' women
- BBC News - Science puts wrinkled fingers to the test
- BBC News - Would more guns save more American lives?
- BBC News - Diet drinks' 'link to depression' questioned
- BBC News - The girls stolen from the streets of India
- BBC News - Most overcrowded train services: Figures reveal top 10
- BBC News - Are you never more than 6ft away from a rat?
- BBC News - Ready meals 'healthier' than TV chefs' fare
- BBC News - Lowering student numbers 'costs economy billions'
- BBC News - Does chocolate make you clever?
- BBC News - North Sea cod: Is it true there are only 100 left?
- BBC News - How unrealistic is murder on television?
- BBC News - Census: Maps show migration trends
- BBC News - Malware inserted on PC production lines, says study
- BBC - Newsbeat - Eddie Murphy named most 'overpaid' actor by Forbes
- BBC News - Smartphone users 'risking health' with overuse of devices
- BBC News - Male tea drinkers 'at greater risk of prostate cancer'
- BBC News - Census 2011: Second addresses mapped
- BBC News - L'Aquila quake: Italy scientists guilty of manslaughter
- BBC Sport - Price of Football: Survey of 166 British clubs revealed
- BBC News - Do Ceredigion people have the most second homes?
- BBC News - Laundry drying 'a risk to health'
- BBC News - Denmark to abolish tax on high-fat foods
- BBC News - Drew Linzer: The stats man who predicted Obama's win
- BBC News - Can three minutes of exercise a week help make you fit?
- BBC News - China: The world's cleverest country?
- BBC News - Curry's ability to fight cancer put to the test
- BBC News - Massive rise in Asian eye damage
- BBC News - Biodiversity loss: How accurate are the numbers?
- BBC News - Phone data shows romance 'driven by women'
- BBC News - Breast cancer rules rewritten in 'landmark' study
- BBC News - Scientists say drinking beer will not lead to beer belly
- BBC News - Do referees favour big football teams?
- BBC Sport - Big clubs receive ref advantage - Man City's Patrick Vieira
- BBC News - People's showering habits revealed in survey
- BBC News - Defying the odds of medicine
- BBC News - Top economists reveal their graphs of 2011
- BBC News - Do the dead outnumber the living?
- BBC News - Go Figure: When was the real baby boom?
- BBC News - Go Figure: Why does every person need 200kg of steel a year?
- BBC News - The reality of adapting to uncertain climate forecasts
- BBC News - A Point of View: Beware of experts
- BBC News - Searching for the most expensive train journey
- BBC News - Skyscrapers 'linked with impending financial crashes'
- BBC News - Every death on every road in Great Britain 1999-2010
- BBC News - Go Figure: Are country roads more dangerous than city roads?
- BBC News - Remembrance Day: Where they fell
- BBC News - Youth dropout blackspots revealed in a new report
- BBC News - Go Figure: The doom and gloom calculator
- BBC News - 'Thousands of children' sexually exploited by gangs
- BBC News - Trees 'boost African crop yields and food security'
- BBC News - Church HIV prayer cure claims 'cause three deaths'
- BBC News - A Point of View: Churchill, chance and the 'black dog'
- BBC News - Global warming 'confirmed' by independent study
- BBC News - England rioters 'poorer, younger, less educated'
- BBC News - Police 'confession' crime detection rates revealed
- BBC News - School odds stacked against summer babies, says IFS
- BBC News - English-style diet 'could save 4,000' in rest of UK
- BBC News - London 2012: Will the Olympics bring more prostitutes?
- BBC News - Manchester named as UK's biggest piracy city in study
- BBC News - UK attitudes on immigration and welfare 'toughening'
- BBC News - London, France's sixth biggest city
- BBC - Podcasts - More or Less: Behind the Stats
- BBC News - What are the chances of meeting your boss on holiday?
- BBC News - The Streisand Effect: When censorship backfires
- BBC News - Inseparable twin friars die hours apart, age 92
- BBC News - A Point of View: Does more information mean we know less?
- BBC News - Oxford University: PM incorrect on black student intake
- BBC News - A fair chance of a place at Oxford?
- BBC - Newsbeat - Men 'worried' about heavy internet porn use
- BBC News - 9/11 conspiracy theories: How they've evolved
- BBC News - Supercomputer predicts revolution
- BBC News - Finding truth and beauty in data
- BBC News - Facebook connections map the world
- BBC News - Research suggests diet drinks can trigger weight gain
- BBC News - Treadmill shows medieval armour influenced battles
- BBC News - Newsnight - The faith healers who claim they can cure cancer
- BBC News - Newsnight - BBC cameraman attacked by faith healer's husband
- BBC News - Analysis: The riots data so far
- BBC News - NHS death rates better - but some trusts still too high
- BBC News - Index finger length prostate cancer clue
- BBC News - Global warming since 1995 'now significant'
- BBC News - Why are athletes wearing coloured tape?
- BBC News - Breast cancer surgery women 'risk more operations'
- BBC News - Census 2011: Five lesser-spotted things in the data
- BBC News - Do those who retire early live longer?
- BBC News - English language 'originated in Turkey'
- BBC News - BitTorrent study finds most file-sharers are monitored
- BBC News - Infection risk posed by cats revealed
- BBC News - Caring for family 'top moral issue for young'
- BBC News - Is zero an even number?
- BBC News - Sleep: Weird things people do in their sleep
- BBC News - Underemployment affects 10.5% of UK workforce
- BBC News - Floods in UK: Is this November unusually wet?
- BBC News - Myth-busting the Christmas adverts
- BBC News - Fergie time: Does it really exist?
- BBC News - Do men and women experience flu differently?
- BBC News - Royal baby: What are the odds of twins?
- BBC News - How tall can a Lego tower get?
- BBC News - The truth behind UK migration figures
- BBC News - Gamma-ray burst 'hit Earth in 8th Century'
- BBC News - Childhood asthma 'admissions down' after smoking ban
- BBC News - UK suicide rate rises 'significantly' in 2011
- BBC News - Cats killing billions of animals in the US
- BBC News - Cancer fight 'hampered in UK by stiff upper lip'
- BBC News - BMI: Does the Body Mass Index need fixing?
- BBC - Newsbeat - Warning about harming career prospects on social media
- BBC News - Horsemeat scandal: Tesco blames supplier over horsemeat in value burgers
- BBC News - Horsemeat scandal: Horsemeat in burgers came from Poland, says FSA
- BBC News - Wards dangerously understaffed, say nurses in survey
- BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Popper
- BBC - Radio 4 - In Our Time - Archive by Genre: Science - page 1
- BBC - Podcasts and Downloads - In Our Time Archive: Science
- BBC - Podcasts and Downloads - In Our Time Archive: Philosophy
- BBC News - White House posts Obama shooting picture on Flickr
- Scripts
- BBC News - Has London's congestion charge worked?
- BBC News - Iraq: The Spies Who Fooled the World
- Blakemore Lab
- Every meteorite since 861 AD: watch them fall | Science | guardian.co.uk
- BBC News - Sir Alex Ferguson's Man United: Wins and losses
- BBC News - North-south divide among silver surfers, says Age UK
- BBC News - Mapping children's chances
- BBC News - Why do so many Americans live in mobile homes?
- BBC News - UK Peace Index highlights rate of fall in violent crime
- BBC News - Why do so many Americans live in mobile homes?
- BBC News - US rice imports 'contain harmful levels of lead'
- BBC News - The man who was close to both the Boston and Texas explosions
- BBC News - Broccoli slows arthritis, researchers think
- BBC News - Sir Bruce Keogh: 'Leeds submitted bad data'
- BBC News - Amanda Knox and bad maths in court
- BBC News - Stafford Hospital: Five more hospitals to be investigated
- BBC News - Mislabelled fish slip into Europe's menus
- BBC News - Does chocolate give you spots?
- BBC News - London tops university crime risk rankings
- BBC News - Black teens more likely than whites to apply to university
- BBC News - Heroin and crack use falling says National Treatment Agency
- BBC News - Testicle size 'link to father role'
- BBC News - British Social Attitudes Report finds softening attitudes to benefits
- BBC News - Almost a quarter of men admit to rape in parts of Asia
- BBC News - Testicle size 'link to father role'
- BBC News - A&E cash linked to staff flu jabs
- BBC News - Womb cancer link to diet, exercise and possibly coffee
- BBC News - Violence against women worldwide is 'epidemic'
- BBC News - What KPMG ignored when arguing for HS2
- BBC News - A&E cash linked to staff flu jabs
- BBC News - Five years after Lehman, all tickety-boo?
- BBC News - GSK: In or out of China?
- BBC News - Is Great Britain really a 'small island'?
- BBC News - Italy's Casanovas hit where it hurts
- BBC News - Health kick 'reverses cell ageing'
- BBC News - Is it too early to put the central heating on?
- BBC News - Daniel Pelka murder: Mother and partner given life
- BBC News - Daniel Pelka: Serious case review finds 'missed opportunities'
- BBC News - The 300-year-old fertility statistics still in use today
- BBC News - Germany in figures
- BBC News - London 2012 athletes 'had bad teeth'
- BBC - Newsbeat - Quarter of young British people 'do not trust Muslims'
- BBC News - Why does the human brain create false memories?
- BBC News - IPCC climate report: humans 'dominant cause' of warming
- BBC News - UN climate report: Key findings
- BBC News - Mystery AD1257 eruption traced to Lombok, Indonesia
- BBC News - Sophia Parslow's parents bid for window blind cords ban
- BBC News - Mid-life stress 'precedes dementia'
- BBC News - Why does the human brain create false memories?
- BBC News - War on illegal drugs failing, medical researchers warn
- BBC News - Breast cancer 'research gap' warning
- BBC News - How British is Britain?
- BBC News - Exercise 'can be as good as pills'
- BBC News - Mystery AD1257 eruption traced to Lombok, Indonesia
- BBC News - How many redheads are there in the world?
- BBC News - Mid-life stress 'precedes dementia'
- BBC News - Breast cancer 'research gap' warning
- BBC News - How many redheads are there in the world?
- BBC News - Poverty 'linked to breast cancer deaths'
- BBC News - Aircraft noise 'link' to stroke and heart disease deaths
- BBC News - Do you really need to drink eight cups of water a day?
- BBC News - HS2 'losers' revealed after report omitted figures
- BBC News - Saturated fat heart disease 'myth'
- BBC News - Do you know your 'good' fat from your 'bad' fat?
- BBC News - The Waitrose snobbery/property price index
- BBC News - What has Movember done for men's health?
- BBC News - Big storms compared: 1987 and 2013
- BBC News - Recent immigrants to UK 'make net contribution'
- BBC News - Prostate cancer aggression test 'may avoid needless ops'
- BBC News - The growth of global immunisation
- BBC News - Calorie burner: How much better is standing up than sitting?
- BBC News - Jobless youth are 'public health time bomb', says WHO
- BBC News - Five storms that shaped history
- BBC News - Housework 'not strenuous enough' for exercise targets
- BBC News - The new middle class revolution: Facts and figures
- BBC News - Does a child die of hunger every 10 seconds?
- BBC News - Double treble: What's the chance of having three sets of twins?
- BBC News - America's military suicide rate explained
Evolution Links
Sunday, 13 October 2013
Everyone's review is unhelpful
Amazon has a system for evaluating reviews where you can say if the review was helpful or not.
Recently I reviewed Globalisation a Very Short Introduction and I noticed that I was getting a lot of negative feedback on the review from people thinking it was not helpful. I am not a great reviewer because I am sometimes impatient or not very linear and I also have my strong political bias. So I expect the "right" not to like my reviews which are often critical of their ideology. Anyway my Globalisation review was a bit of a pole against the right-wingers but not as drastic as usual. So I did not expect so many negatives but when I looked at the other reviews there was a surprise. The majority of the other reviews had the same number of unhelpful votes as well. So this suggests systematic going through all the reviews and marking them unhelpful. What is stranger is it did not matter if they were positive 5-star reviews like mine or negative 1-star ones, or neutral 3-star ones. No matter what viewpoint the review was unhelpful.
This is strange. This suggests that the reviewers have been negatively voting on each other to try and become the top rated review. Most interesting is the only review to receive any helpful votes has three votes. This is similar to the number of negative votes for most of the reviews. So if this person has four Amazon accounts this could explain the pattern.
Recently I reviewed Globalisation a Very Short Introduction and I noticed that I was getting a lot of negative feedback on the review from people thinking it was not helpful. I am not a great reviewer because I am sometimes impatient or not very linear and I also have my strong political bias. So I expect the "right" not to like my reviews which are often critical of their ideology. Anyway my Globalisation review was a bit of a pole against the right-wingers but not as drastic as usual. So I did not expect so many negatives but when I looked at the other reviews there was a surprise. The majority of the other reviews had the same number of unhelpful votes as well. So this suggests systematic going through all the reviews and marking them unhelpful. What is stranger is it did not matter if they were positive 5-star reviews like mine or negative 1-star ones, or neutral 3-star ones. No matter what viewpoint the review was unhelpful.
This is strange. This suggests that the reviewers have been negatively voting on each other to try and become the top rated review. Most interesting is the only review to receive any helpful votes has three votes. This is similar to the number of negative votes for most of the reviews. So if this person has four Amazon accounts this could explain the pattern.
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