Stat of the Summer Competition Winner!

Thank you for all the fantastic Stat of the Summer nominations.

Two of them generated popular posts on Stats Chat:

• Unfaithful to the data, too – Jennifer Muller’s nomination of Infidelity: it’s a right-wing, meat-eaters’ thing
• Tip of the Icecube – Stephanie Mills’ nomination of Unfit to teach – the roll of shame

The winner was chosen to be Eric Crampton’s nomination of smoker costs from The Quit Group, quoted on Radio NZ for smokers each costing the economy $139,000/year.

If it were true, the sky would fall in.

While the original source provided a form of correction to Eric for the smoking number, as far as we know Radio NZ didn’t correct the report.

Congratulations Eric for winning a copy of Tufte’s book “Beautiful Evidence”.

Thank you to everyone who took part and we are now resuming our weekly competition, so please keep your nominations coming in!