Tag: statistics
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I’m sorry, what?
Today there were six cases. Six. At the height of this we were having closer to 600. So I’m not quite sure what biomedical statistics equate 6 with an increase
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How many Irish suicides are attributable to the crisis?
How many suicides in Ireland can be attributed to the the effects of the financial crisis? A recent study suggests a lot.
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25.8% = 12.1% = 4.8%.. if you’re the Sunday Independent
So today the Super Soaraway Sindo has a breathess shock horror piece about academic salaries. The headline is “25% of university academics earn more than 100k” Lets see. The numbers appear to refer to the sector as a whole. 1093 people earn more than 100k. But the sector as a whole has (as from p 41)…
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The Financial Times – Getting it wrong on Ireland, and how
So, the FT has an oped on the Irish recovery. And it is, sadly, about as wrong as can be.
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Is there a fix in the gold fix? We simply don’t know…
There has been a lot of media chatter over the last week regarding the possibility of the London gold price having been rigged, with Bloomberg leading the pack and with a lawsuit now having been filed. Shades of Auric Goldfinger haunt the trading desks. The way that this has been presented is that a set…
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What sectors have contracted most in the crash?
The CSO produced a very good set of tables on value added by sector 2002-9 The data tables contained in this release can be downloaded in excel from this link. Summary : in terms of output the economy was 13% smaller in 2009 than 2002. Service industries and agri have been hit hard, as with…