Showing posts with label statistics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label statistics. Show all posts
2020-06-08

Auditing mappingpoliceviolence.org, part 2

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Following on from my previous post about 2015 police killings of unarmed black people, here's a breakdown of the reasons behind cases ...
2017-02-11

28 hours of racial lies

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One of the latest bits of social justice posturing is the play "Every 28 hours", a project produced by the Oregon Shakespeare Fe...
2014-04-14

Dodgy assertions from CASH's head medic

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The salt-haters have been praising the reduction in dietary salt for an important role in the 42% fewer stroke fatalities and 40% drop in t...
2014-01-17

Racism by association

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I appreciate that if someone wants to get paid for a "all Tories are racist" article then the first instinct is to head to The Gu...
2013-12-30

Gaming the system - ambulance response times

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It turns out that if emergency services try to chase response times then the public can get screwed over, in a very real and non-reversibl...
2013-11-12

The difference between government and private industry

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The US insurance industry has indicated 50,000 sign-ups for the Affordable Care Act insurance so far. This is less than 10% of what they w...
2013-07-21

Deddington NIMBYs

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Driving through the small town of Deddington the other day, I was struck (not physically) by a large sign on the wall of a very expensiv...
2013-06-23

Interviewers don't know jack

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At least, that's the impression given by Google's HR head Laszlo Bock: Years ago, we did a study to determine whether anyone at G...
2013-04-29

Reflections on uptime

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A couple of conversations this week have made me realise how "uptime", and its unloved stepchild "downtime" are misunde...
2012-12-14

US and Canadian guns

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Following today's awful school shooting in Connecticut I wondered what gun ownership / crime was like in the USA versus Canada. So let...