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Each week, we would like to invite readers of Stats Chat to submit nominations for our Stat of the Week competition and be in with the chance to win an iTunes voucher.

Here’s how it works:

• Anyone may add a comment on this post to nominate their Stat of the Week candidate before midday Friday November 22 2013.
• Statistics can be bad, exemplary or fascinating.
• The statistic must be in the NZ media during the period of November 16 – 22 2013 inclusive.
• Quote the statistic, when and where it was published and tell us why it should be our Stat of the Week.

Next Monday at midday we’ll announce the winner of this week’s Stat of the Week competition, and start a new one.

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If you’d like to comment on or debate any of this week’s Stat of the Week nominations, please do so below!

Each week, we would like to invite readers of Stats Chat to submit nominations for our Stat of the Week competition and be in with the chance to win an iTunes voucher.

Here’s how it works:

• Anyone may add a comment on this post to nominate their Stat of the Week candidate before midday Friday November 15 2013.
• Statistics can be bad, exemplary or fascinating.
• The statistic must be in the NZ media during the period of November 9 – 15 2013 inclusive.
• Quote the statistic, when and where it was published and tell us why it should be our Stat of the Week.

Next Monday at midday we’ll announce the winner of this week’s Stat of the Week competition, and start a new one.

(more…)

If you’d like to comment on or debate any of this week’s Stat of the Week nominations, please do so below!

Each week, we would like to invite readers of Stats Chat to submit nominations for our Stat of the Week competition and be in with the chance to win an iTunes voucher.

Here’s how it works:

• Anyone may add a comment on this post to nominate their Stat of the Week candidate before midday Friday November 8 2013.
• Statistics can be bad, exemplary or fascinating.
• The statistic must be in the NZ media during the period of November 2 – 8 2013 inclusive.
• Quote the statistic, when and where it was published and tell us why it should be our Stat of the Week.

Next Monday at midday we’ll announce the winner of this week’s Stat of the Week competition, and start a new one.

(more…)

If you’d like to comment on or debate any of this week’s Stat of the Week nominations, please do so below!

Each week, we would like to invite readers of Stats Chat to submit nominations for our Stat of the Week competition and be in with the chance to win an iTunes voucher.

Here’s how it works:

• Anyone may add a comment on this post to nominate their Stat of the Week candidate before midday Friday November 1 2013.
• Statistics can be bad, exemplary or fascinating.
• The statistic must be in the NZ media during the period of October 26 – November 1 2013 inclusive.
• Quote the statistic, when and where it was published and tell us why it should be our Stat of the Week.

Next Monday at midday we’ll announce the winner of this week’s Stat of the Week competition, and start a new one.

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If you’d like to comment on or debate any of this week’s Stat of the Week nominations, please do so below!

Thank you for your nominations in last week’s Stat of the Week competition.

We’ve chosen Michael MacAskill’s nomination of the Christchurch Press article: “Luck of the Irish has sex-disease downside”.

“Irish migrant rebuild workers in Christchurch might or might not have higher rates of sexually transmitted diseases than they did last year.

This story claims that there has been an increase in Irish workers in ChCh with sexually transmitted infections. It doesn’t adjust for the large increase in the total number of Irish workers in the city over the period. No figures are available for other nationalities, so we have no context to judge whether Irish are either over or even under-represented. An absolutely unqualified and uninformed (but sadly, recently re-elected) lay Health Board member is oddly enough asked to contribute his opinion. He prefixes them with the word “Statistically…” to give them more weight. He assumes that all Irish workers in ChCh are heterosexual males, and makes several causal leaps to blame local women for passing on infections.

And why exactly are we just talking about the Irish in the first place?”

There’s also a strong reaction in the comments on that article on Stuff, including someone threatening to complain to the Press Council.

Thanks for alerting us to this article Michael, and congratulations for being our Stat of the Week winner!

Each week, we would like to invite readers of Stats Chat to submit nominations for our Stat of the Week competition and be in with the chance to win an iTunes voucher.

Here’s how it works:

• Anyone may add a comment on this post to nominate their Stat of the Week candidate before midday Friday October 25 2013.
• Statistics can be bad, exemplary or fascinating.
• The statistic must be in the NZ media during the period of October 19 – 25 2013 inclusive.
• Quote the statistic, when and where it was published and tell us why it should be our Stat of the Week.

Next Monday at midday we’ll announce the winner of this week’s Stat of the Week competition, and start a new one.

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