March 1, 2012
Last chance to enter our Stat of the Summer competition – add yours!
There’s still a little more time to add your nominations for the Stat of the Summer competition, and here’s the most recent two nominations from Tony Cooper:
Divided Auckland – NZ Herald series
“it was flawed because they assumed as truth something that is only a hypothesis and assumed that correlation implies causation (that inequality causes poverty”
West Coast/Buller among the happiest regions
“The thing that struck me as odd, almost humorous, about this story which reports that West Coast/Buller is the happiest region in NZ is that in 2008 the survey reported the same region as the LEAST happiest. Surely the region hasn’t changed that much in that little time!
My best guess is that this is an example of getting the sampling error wrong.”