27 March 2026
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There was some noise last year about a Bible Society report which suggested a “quiet revival” was underway, with church attendance increasing particularly among young men with no previous church connection. It caused a fair ripple of excitement across Christian … Continue reading
4 May 2017
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I’m going to have to pass up the opportunity to wish you a happy Star Wars Day (May the 4th be with you!) and get political again. Today sees local elections in the UK (I’ll be casting my vote after … Continue reading
21 June 2016
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I’m trying not to post too much about Thursday’s EU referendum but it is looming close and it is a significant, one-time only choice. My already fragile resolution was pushed over the edge by the clutch of leaflets I had … Continue reading
23 June 2015
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Here is the perfect website for all my colleagues who work with statistics: Spurious Correlations.
7 December 2014
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I’ve come across the idea of false positives a number of times. In a healthcare context, for example, it proves a confounding factor for widespread screening programmes for conditions such as various types of cancer. If you devise a methodology … Continue reading
27 July 2014
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I notice that my friend Matt Gallagher has posted his top 20 albums for the last year so I thought I would take a look at my Last.fm charts and do the same. On that page you can see a … Continue reading
17 February 2014
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You really need to click on the following to see it on the xckd website. Instead of static list of things that happen, you will see each item pulsating at a speed that represents how often it occurs: The wonder … Continue reading
15 February 2013
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Via Twitter, I came across an interesting paper on the pros and cons of introducing cycle helmet legislation in the UK, called Cycle Helmets: The impacts of compulsory cycle helmet legislation on cyclist fatalities and premature deaths in the UK. … Continue reading
23 October 2012
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My geektastic find of the day is a neat set of graphs and plentiful other information exploring the demographics of Tolkien’s Middle Earth. I spend a lot of my time helping medical researchers capture data to work with so it … Continue reading
17 November 2011
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After the statistics course I did last month, this xkcd cartoon caught my eye as it illustrates one of the points that was made. 95% confidence in a finding sounds impressive until you realise that 5% of the time the … Continue reading