
@BBCNews’s statistician. Number nerd 24-7-365.2425.
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Should all government statistics look like the Department for Education’s?
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Got a marketing survey about ppl who admitted to lying on CVs. Reminds me of a riddle about two doors and two guards.
One door led to hell, the other heaven. One guard could tell only the truth, the other only lies.
So we surveyed both - our results say use our site for your CV.
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Things like spin rates and groundstroke speed often get shown on broadcast but they're pretty incomplete in isolation. But if you capture each stage of a groundstroke you start to get a much fuller picture of the shot and the differences. For e.g it'll probably surprise people that Medvedev, one of the flatter forehand hitters, has the highest avg forehand net clearance of the Top 10. But he makes contact from further back, hits the ball more slowly than his peers, and yet still lands his shots pretty deep (reduced magnus effect forcing ball down compared to higher-spin peers). It's a pretty distinct shot shape to most of the rest of the top 10 and it's also a good example of how different contact inputs (contact point, speed, spin) can affect the outputs (net clearance and depth)
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Prince William visited my local ActOne cinema yday.
Hard to quantify what it’s brought to community in 5 yrs-from supporting young people to relaxed screenings for neurodivergent customers. & returned a real buzz to the high st.
Wills clearly has gd taste @_petermason @RupaHuq
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You can tell Ozempic and Mounjaro are popular…in our Timpson shops we have seen a 680% increase in the number of free holes in customers belts we’ve been doing this year.
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Today, we are pleased to announce that His Majesty the King, on the advice of the Prime Minister, has appointed André Loranger to be the UK’s next National Statistician.
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Statisticians*: “relative changes, schmelative schmanges : doubling a small number is still a small nu…..”
Also statisticians: “CHECK OUT THIS CHART!!! We rule”
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Interesting piece from BBC on vape shops & others still registered to sponsor migrant workers
I was on Radio 4 at 6.45am to explain why. It's an unintended consequence of post-Brexit expansion that made mid-skilled jobs (eg electricians etc) eligible
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Watching a Mel Gibson vehicle on Prime, I’m prepared to bet that I’m seeing my first example of a Chekhov’s lawn mower
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Many are claiming this analysis proves that Scotland’s 48% top tax rate reduced revenue. While it’s useful analysis, the data doesn’t support such a definitive conclusion.
Here’s why we should treat it with some caution🧵
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Scotland raised its top income tax rate to 48% to make the rich pay more.
New HMRC data suggests the result may have been the opposite: Scotland collected about £22m less.
We can't be sure, but Scotland may have fallen over the Laffer curve.
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I'll be back in 10 minutes’ is the biggest lie every developer has ever told. 💀
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Today, we have written to the Leader of the Opposition about welfare spending. uksa.statisticsauthority.gov…
At the BBC we pulled out interesting leads in the Mandelson doc drop using Google's AI-powered journalism assistant. Clips have deets: 1 is an intro to the docs, 2 is what we did/found.
Ofc, pretty much all the lines/leads found by expert journos - this helps the manpower.
More UK deaths than births expected every year from now on
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More young men living at home looks a lot like a flight home after uni that mainly (but not all) fades away over the 20s.
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