Statistics

Debunking a persistent talking point in the trans rights campaign

Statistics are an essentially alien language that humans did not evolve to recognise or understand

Data from seven different indicators establishes that infections were already in decline in England before the January lockdown

And if it is – how worried should we be? Graham Stewart talks to Alistair Haimes

The British state can neither gather, interpret, nor explain its own statistics

Scottish Government advisers are using misleading data to promote Scottish exceptionalism

Taking statistics out of context is a dangerous games, says Theodore Dalrymple