Statistics

Sloppy analysis is especially disappointing from public servants

We cannot trust models based on bogus assumptions

The LGBTQ+ lobby is making up “scientific” facts to win arguments

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