Useful Links

 UK Statistics Authority: guide to the statistical system, rules and governance http://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk

 UK National Statistics: the publication hub provides a diary of recent and forthcoming statistics. Useful RSS feed available

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/hub/index.html

 

Royal Statistical Society: news, events and publications from the Royal Statistical Society

http://www.rss.org.uk

 

Understanding Uncertainty: risk, chance and probability elegantly explained on the site run by David Spiegelhalter’s Cambridge group http://understandinguncertainty.org/

 

More or Less: the website of Radio 4s excellent series on the use and abuse of numbers, created by Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot and presented by Tim Harford

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/more_or_less/1628489.stm

 

Risk Research: projects in progress in a university network of researchers interested in the perception of real life risks

http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/psych/subsites/understandingrisk/index.html

 

Bad Science: Dr Ben Goldacre’s provocative and fearless take on snake oil salesmen and the iniquities of the media

http://www.badscience.net

 

Better Journalism: the Media Standards Trust promotes excellence in the media

http://www.mediastandardstrust.org/home.aspx

 

Freedom of Information: how to use the FoI Act, news and comment on issues of press freedom

http://www.cfoi.org.uk/

 

Press Complaints: the website of the Press Complaints Commission- codes of practice, making a complaint

http://www.pcc.org.uk/

 

Mathematical Thinking: Open University website on understanding numbers

http://open2.net/sciencetechnologynature/maths/menu_statistics.html

 

Numberwatch: a highly personal site devoted to the monitoring of misleading numbers, with a grumpy old man flavour

http://www.numberwatch.co.uk

 

Radstats: launched as the Radical Statistics Group in 1975, Radstats pursues statistics with a political flavour, aiming to build a more egalitarian society

http://www.radstats.org.uk/

 

StatsChat is a New Zealand-based site with material based on its home country but often of much broader relevance 

http://www.statschat.org.nz/