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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 1d

Good to see this initiative continues

Significance magazine @significancemag.bsky.social · 1d

Everything you need to know about the International Day of Women in Statistics & Data Science, and what to expect from its fourth outing on 14 October 2025 #IDWSDS2025

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What is the International Day of Women in Statistics & Data Science 2025? - Significance magazine

Everything you need to know about the International Day of Women in Statistics & Data Science, and what to expect from its fourth outing on 14 October 2025 The...

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Significance magazine @significancemag.bsky.social · 1d

Is 'home advantage' back? When Covid kept football fans away from matches, it didn't seem to matter whether teams played at home or away. But what happened after the crowds returned?

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Home advantage: what's changed since Covid? - Significance magazine

Football fans say a team plays better in their home stadium, thanks to the familiarity of the environment and the quantity of fans cheering them on. The August 2021 issue...

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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely yes. DD suggested to her head of year that they stop doing them for exactly that reason, but was told no.

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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe our jobs are safe for a little bit longer

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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 1d

and this is in multicultural London, so there are big potential problems bubbling under the surface I’d say.

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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 1d

My teens are split on the matter - but both say that many of their peers have no idea about politics (and they both studied politics A level!!). DD also says many of her peers have far right views which have been allowed to surface in group activities such as talking points - dressed up as debate.

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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 1d

Assume you all also realise that around 80% of gov stats are produced in Whitehall departments?

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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 2d

Proud to have been on the steering group for this important project.

Royal Statistical Society @royalstatsoc.bsky.social · 3d

Statisticians worked with fragmented data to estimate the scale of the NHS’s biggest scandal: the Infected Blood Inquiry. In a masterclass of balancing data with quality results, their models clarified the impact.

🔗 Read more and find out what policymakers can learn: rss.org.uk/news-publica...

Policy recommendations and final case study published in the Statistics Under Pressure initiative

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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 2d

Yes it was all put in the National Archives but incredibly hard to find unless you know exactly what you are looking for.

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Royal Statistical Society @royalstatsoc.bsky.social · 3d

Statisticians worked with fragmented data to estimate the scale of the NHS’s biggest scandal: the Infected Blood Inquiry. In a masterclass of balancing data with quality results, their models clarified the impact.

🔗 Read more and find out what policymakers can learn: rss.org.uk/news-publica...

Policy recommendations and final case study published in the Statistics Under Pressure initiative

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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 2d

Yes definitely!

Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, I was pleased to see a lot of the same thinking! And that my memory on how we plumped for 75 was pretty much right 😄

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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 2d

A fairly old article on how to define premature mortality, for some reason easier to find on this random website than the National Archives… @actuarybyday.bsky.social www.atlantesanitario.it/index.php?op...

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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 3d

agreed, catch up soon at council xx

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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 4d

Tbf there are numerous good reasons for this… I’d be worried if they didn’t report on homicide and if anything gun deaths are under not over reported given just how preventable they are.

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 4d

Nice chart from @ourworldindata.org showing the contrast between what Americans die of (heart disease and cancer) v what the US media reports on (homicide and terrorism). This naturally leads to it being trickier to build a fact based world view
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What Americans die from
and the causes of death the US media reports on
Causes of death in the US in 2023
Heart disease (29%)
Cancer (26%)
Accidents (9.5%)
Stroke (6.9%)
Lower respiratory diseases
(6.2%)
Alzheimer's disease (4.8%)
Diabetes (4.0%)
Kidney failure (2.4%)
Liver disease (2.2%)
Homicide (<1%)
Terrorism (<0.001%)|
COVID-19 (2.1%)
Influenza/Pneu
monia (19%6)

Media coverage of these causes of death in 2023 in...
The New York Times
The Washington Post
Fox News
Heart disease (2.8%)
Heart disease (2.9%)
Cancer (4.1%)
Cancer (4.7%)
Accidents (5.9%)
Cancer (3.8%)
Accidents (6.1%)
Accidents (9.7%)
Suicide (4.1%)
Suicide (3.3%)
COVID-19 (6.0%)
COVID-19 (7.9%)
Suicide (3.8%)
COVID-19 (5.3%)
Drug overdose (7.5%)
Drug overdose (9.8%)
Drug overdose (9.5%)
Cancer (26%)
Accidents (9.5%)
Stroke (6.9%)
Lower respiratory diseases
(6.2%)
Alzheimer's disease (4.8%)
Diabetes (4.0%)
Kidney failure (24%)
Suicide (2.1%0)
COVID-19 (2.1%0
Homicide (42%)
Homicide (52%)
Homicide (46%)
Terrorism (18%)
Terrorism (12%)
Terrorism (11%)
Homicide (<1%)
Terrorism (<0.001%)
Note: Based on the share of causes of death in the US and the share of mentions for each of the causes in the New York Times, the Washington Post and Fox News. All values are normalized to 100%, so the shares are relative to all deaths caused by the 12 most common causes + drug overdoses, homicides and terrorism. These causes account for more than 75% of deaths in the US.
A "media mention" is a published article in one of the outlets which mentions the cause (e,g. "influenza) or related keywords (e.g. "fu") least twice.
Data sources: Media mentions from Media Cloud (2025): deaths data from the US CDC (2025) and Global Terrorism Index.|
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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 4d

I was going with yes, you do need foil cutters but this one is also good.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 4d

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

Jane Goodall said she would launch Trump and Musk on one-way trip into space

Primatologist said in interview released after her death she would also put Putin, Xi and Netanyahu on that spaceship In a lifetime studying the behavior of chimpanzees, Jane Goodall became something of an authority on the aggressiveness of alpha male adults. Now, in an interview released just days after her death, the famed primatologist reveals what she would do with Donald Trump, Elon Musk and other human beings she saw as showing similar traits: launch them on a one-way trip into space. The insight into Goodall’s thinking comes in the Netflix documentary Famous Last Words, recorded in March and kept under wraps until her death last week at the age of 91. Continue reading...

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David Buck @davidjbuck.bsky.social · 12d

ICYMI: From CMO of England (& colleagues inc @statsgeekclare.bsky.social ), #our #health as a nation. Some will reinforce, some will suprise, should make us all think/question. Very much welcome the narrative, alongside the numbers www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 12d

John Bibby and his contributions to Radical Statistics;
Why are some people missing from UK surveys?;
Unsettled populations: Service administrative data and people outside the sampling frame;
Unknown knowns: The non-enforcing of gambling legislation in Ireland

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Editorial, Issue 137

Radstats’ annual conference took place at Manchester Metroplitan University on the 1st of March 2025, and we thank all of those involved in its organisation, as well as those who presented and part…

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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 15d

MSOAs were created to be a stable geography with roughly similar numbers of people in each. They are a statistical building block geography. In the past wards had been used for that but their boundaries change constantly and they vary wildly in size.

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BBC Radio 6 Music Now Playing Bot (Unofficial) @bbcradio6musicbot.bsky.social · 15d

BBC Radio 6 Music
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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 15d

Good to know there is interest as hopefully this will help us get approval to do it!

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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 15d

I need to make a start on Taskmaster but am behind on Bake Off!

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.bsky.social · 15d

This is the best present you could ever give an autistic person who likes data and it's interfering with my ability to watch Taskmaster

Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 16d

New CMO report out today on health trends and variation in England. My team delivered this using a RAP developed in R, which made a nice change from lots of people running around putting numbers into excel then pasting into powerpoint... Was not without challenges though! www.gov.uk/government/p...

Health trends and variation in England 2025: a Chief Medical Officer report

An overview of the health of England’s population, including trends over time and geographical variation.

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