Posts filed under Stat of the Week (619)

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 28 2012.
• Statistics can be bad, exemplary or fascinating.
• The statistic must be in the NZ media during the period of September 22 – 28 2012 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 21 2012.
• Statistics can be bad, exemplary or fascinating.
• The statistic must be in the NZ media during the period of September 15 – 21 2012 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!

Congratulations to Nick Iversen for her fantastic nomination of a “clinical trial” conducted by Dr. Oz with a great link to Science Based Medicine debunking the study.

James Curran noted that “it’s easy to loose 5lb in water even in the course of a day (on some bike rides in summer I will lose as much as 3-4kg on a 3 hour ride, and usually 1-2kg)”

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 14 2012.
• Statistics can be bad, exemplary or fascinating.
• The statistic must be in the NZ media during the period of September 8 – 14 2012 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!

Congratulations to Mark Bellhouse for his nomination of good reporting of a drug use study. Thomas Lumley also posted about the story here.

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 7 2012.
• Statistics can be bad, exemplary or fascinating.
• The statistic must be in the NZ media during the period of September 1 – 7 2012 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!