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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 September 20 2013.
• Statistics can be bad, exemplary or fascinating.
• The statistic must be in the NZ media during the period of September 14 – 20 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 September 13 2013.
• Statistics can be bad, exemplary or fascinating.
• The statistic must be in the NZ media during the period of September 7 – 13 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 September 6 2013.
• Statistics can be bad, exemplary or fascinating.
• The statistic must be in the NZ media during the period of August 31 – September 6 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 this week’s Stat of the Week Competition.

We have chosen Andrew Robertson’s nomination of Campbell Live’s GCSB Bill “poll” as the winner:

89% oppose the GCSB bill.

Self-selecting poll made out to be accurate by virtual of the number of people responding. They should have called it a petition, not a poll. A random Research NZ poll, asking a different question, put opposition at 52%.

Comments on this nomination from those members of the Statistics Department included:

“Self-selecting polls are an old favourite but this was a particularly egregious example, if only because of the way various politicians treated the result as being real data.”

And:

“Good use of counter evidence with a properly conducted sample survey.”

And Thomas blogged about this further.

Congratulations Andrew!

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 August 30 2013.
• Statistics can be bad, exemplary or fascinating.
• The statistic must be in the NZ media during the period of August 24 – 30 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!