World AIDS Day: calls for better HIV testing
charities
Off-licences cause drinking, except in London
If there’s a charity more careless in its use of statistics than Alcohol Concern, I’d like to know of it.
Crowdsourcing the cuts: statistics or propaganda?
Keeping track of the impact of cuts in public spending is not an easy task. There are no sound statistical sources to consult.
Standard recycles out of date figures on domestic homicides
Once a “fact” is in the electronics cuttings library it makes regular reappearances.
New figures on women killed by partners
Refuge got a few headlines before Christmas with a press release saying that homicides of women by their husbands or partners had risen from 72 in 2008 to 101 in 2009.
