RSS in the media

• 2019-2020

  12 May 2020
  BBC: Coronavirus: How many people have died in the UK?
  Independent: Florence Nightingale’s legacy ‘has never been so relevant’
  Evening Standard: Florence Nightingale's Bicentenary Celebration
   
  11 May 2020
  The Conversation: The healing power of data: Florence Nightingale’s true legacy
   
  8 May 2020
  Daily Mail: How Florence Nightingale shaped the way modern nurses are tackling coronavirus
   
  6 May 2020
  Computer Weekly: Re-purposing data and questionable effectiveness could undermine trust in NHS contact-tracing app
   
  5 May 2020
  Guardian: How would Florence Nightingale have tackled Covid-19?
   
  29 April 2020
  Research Live: New CEO at the Royal Statistical Society
  Financial Times: Cancer deaths in England could soar by a fifth this year, UCL study says(paywalled)
   
  28 April 2020
  Guardian: Harvey Goldstein obituary
  City AM: Royal Statistical Society appoints new chief executive
   
  27 April 2020
  Research Fortnight: Stian Westlake appointed chief executive of statistical society (paywalled)
   
  22 April 2020
  Research Live: Royal Statistical Society Launches Pandemic Task Force
   
  17 April 2020
  Financial Times: Why are we really in lockdown? (paywalled)
  
  16 April 2020
  TES: Tributes pour in for critic of Pisa and league tables
   
  13 April 2020
  International Business Times: Statistics in time of Coronavirus: How do you make sense of a data avalanche?
   
  12 April 2020
  Guardian: Coronavirus deaths in UK hospitals surpass 10,000
  Observer: Coronavirus statistics: what can we trust and what should we ignore?
   
  9 April 2020
  CNN: British scientists are sceptical about US model which predicts much higher Covid-19 death toll in UK
   
  8 April 2020
  Independent: Study suggests UK could have Europe’s highest coronavirus death toll
   
  27 March 2020
  Financial Times: Let’s flatten the coronavirus confusion curve (paywalled)
   
  26 March 2020
  Business Standard: Women 10 per cent more likely than men to feel unsafe in metro trains: Study
   
  9 March 2020
  The Register: UK.gov is not sharing Brits' medical data among different agencies
   
  24 February 2020
  WONKHE: Are student number controls coming back to English higher education?
  
  3 February 2020
  Guardian: Study finds UK productivity slowdown worst since Industrial Revolution
   
  20 January 2020
  The House: Dan Jarvis MP: Low productivity has become ingrained in our economy
   
  16 January 2020
  Civil Service World: Royal Statistical Society award to recognise organisations leading the way on trustworthy stats
  Bloomberg: U.K. Productivity Woes More Costly Than Worst-Case Brexit
   
  14 January 2020
  Charity Digital: Data project for charities awarded £400,000 from the National Lottery
   
  13 January 2020
  Express: Has the Amazon rainforest fire stopped?
   
  10 January 2020
  UK Fundraising: Royal Statistical Society secures National Lottery funding to help charities with data skills
   
  8 January 2020
  Financial Times: UK labour productivity rises slightly  (paywall)
   
  6 January 2020
  Independent: Phil Thornton - The government’s productivity blindspot is our economy’s biggest threat
  
  3 January 2020
  The Telegraph: The numbers we'll be talking about in the next decade (paywall)
  
  31 December 2019
  CNN: The Amazon lost the equivalent of 8.4 million soccer fields this decade
  Fox News: The Amazon has lost the equivalent of 10.3 million football fields to deforestation
   
  30 December 2019
  CNBC: UK productivity has ‘halted’ since the financial crisis, expert says
   
  23 December 2019
  Guardian: Don’t glaze over. This statistic holds the key to UK prosperity - Hetan Shah
  And the statistic of the decade award goes to … 0.3%
  Bloomberg: U.K. Productivity Malaise Named as ‘Statistic of the Decade'
  The i: Amazon has lost rainforest the size of 8.4 million football pitches in decade, says Royal Statistical Society
  Financial Times: Poor productivity growth of 0.3% is ‘statistic of the decade’ (paywall)
  The Times: Paul Johnson on why stark statistics make clear why people feel worse off (paywall)
  The Sun: Shocking destruction of the Amazon rainforest named stat of decade
  LADbible: Amazon Rainforest Losing Equivalent To 8.4 Million Football Pitches is Statistic Of The Decade
  The Conversation: Liberty Vittert – Statistics of the Decade
   
  22 December 2019
  Mail on Sunday: LUCY MANGAN: Let's force men to split Christmas jobs 50/50!
   
  19 December 2019
  The Times: The statistics quiz of the year 2019 (paywall)
  Things to avoid saying at the Christmas lunch (paywall)
  Daily Mail: Growth of in-work poverty is UK's 'statistic of the year' for 2019
  Yahoo: Growth of in-work poverty is ‘statistic of the year’
  Sky News: In-work poverty and life expectancy figures are 2019's most important stats
  ITV News: Growth of in-work poverty is ‘statistic of the year’
  Research Live: Stat of the year highlights in-work poverty
   
  5 December 2019
  Evening Standard: The Londoner
   
  5 November 2019
  Civil Service World: Pre-election guidance issued as restrictions on officials come into force
   
  15 October 2019
  Guardian: Councils using algorithms to make welfare decisions
  
  30 September 2019 
  Schools Week: A hundred years of randomness: Dr Ben Styles on education RCTs
  
  26 September 2019 
  Research Live: Industry stats body calls for policy debate centred on evidence
  
  25 September 2019 
  New Statement: Dominic Cummings: The Machiavel in Downing Street
  
  25 September 2019 
  Public Technology: Data chiefs call for end to politicians’ early access to statistics
  
  24 September 2019 
  Holyrood Magazine: Giving ministers early sight of statistics “encourages spin”
  
  19 September 2019 
  STV: Early access to stats could be limited amid spin fears
  
  17 September 2019 
  WonkHe: What the (extra) TEF?
  
  15 September 2019 
  I newspaper: Overhaul of university admissions could see students apply after getting A-level results
  
  12 September 2019 
  LBC: Nick Ferrari at Breakfast - Professor Jen Rogers interview for Stats of the Year/Decade, link unavailable
  
  5 September 2019 
  New Statesman: The RPI trap: how Sajid Javid quietly consigned younger workers to years of lower pay
  
  15th August 2019
  Financial Times: Artificial intelligence is no silver bullet for governance (Op-ed by Hetan Shah)
  
  6th August 2019
  Physics World: Why we need to keep talking about equality in physics
  
  6th August 2019
  Financial Times: UK appoints veteran academic as national statistician
  
  6th August 2019
  The Times: ‘Visionary’ academic is new statistics chief
  
  6th August 2019
  Civil Service World: Social Security Advisory Committee chair Sir Ian Diamond named national statistician
  
  24th July 2019
  Daily Mail: Middle-aged women with waists over 35 inches have a 30% higher risk of early death (RSS Statistical Ambassador Dr Joy Leahy quoted)
  
  16th July 2019
  Research Live: Government urged to overhaul use of data
  
  12th July 2019
  The Bureau of Investigative Journalism: Dying Homeless Project Wins Royal Statistical Society Award
  
  14th June 2019
  Associated Press: Cricket’s scoring pioneer is no ‘Einstein’ (Frank Duckworth, RSS Fellow, interview)
  
  6th June 2019
  The Actuary: Interview: Hetan Shah
  
  3rd June 2019
  The Times: Bad planning, not a lack of talent, is behind the leadership vacuum
  
  12 July 2019
  Civil Service World: ONS homeless deaths project scoops statistical excellence award
  
  24 June 2019
  City AM: The government must boost data sharing if it is to keep up with industry 
  
  31 May 2019
  Civil Service World: Department for Education warned again on ministers’ funding claims (Hetan Shah quoted)
  
  28 May 2019
  BBC Radio 4’s More or Less: Florence Nightingale – recognising the nurse statistician
  
  24 May 2019
  Civil Service World: ONS loses deputy national statistician as hunt for new chief continues (Hetan Shah quoted)
  
  15 May 2019
  New Statesman: When maths goes wrong
  
  10 May 2019
  Guardian: One in five harmed by others drinking alcohol over past year, survey finds (Statistical Ambassador, Joy Leahy, quoted, RSS mentioned)
  
  10 May 2019
  City AM: Wanted: A new national statistician to restore the public’s faith in data (Hetan Shah article)
  
  07 May 2019
  Channel 5: RSS Statistical Ambassador Michael Dunne-Willows fact-checked“ Care leavers - what happens when they turn 18?” documentary, RSS credited
  
  03 May 2019
  BBC Radio 4’s More or Less: Nurses, flatmates and cats (Professor Jen Rogers appearance)
  
  02 May 2019
  Investment Week: A halt in diversity progress would be disheartening
  
  23 April 2019
  Civil Service World: Search for next national statistician comes up empty
  
  23 April 2019
  Times: £160,000 salary fails to lure new statistics chief
  
  23 April 2019
  Times: Hundreds of errors mar pay gap data
  
  23 April 2019
  Financial Times: UK fails to fill role of national statistician (paywall)
  
  15 April 2019
  Personnel Today: How gender pay gap sums should be made more accurate
  
  12 April 2019
  Times: Gender pay gap ‘hard to understand’ (paywall)
  
  12 April 2019
  talkRadio: The Julia Hartley-Brewer Breakfast Show (interview with Professor Jen Rogers speaking about the gender pay gap) (link unavailable)
  
  12 April 2019
  BBC Radio Scotland: Good Morning Scotland (interview with Professor Jen Rogers speaking about the gender pay gap)
  
  11 April 2019
  Vice: An Attempt to Make Universities More Equal Is Making Things Even Worse
  
  4 April 2019
  Econews: Australian spring water company challenges bottled water industry
  
  13 March 2019
  The Statesman (India): Five ways cities can curb plastic waste
  
  12 March 2019
  Hello Magazine: 7 of the most inspiring British women in history
  
  12 March 2019
  Civil Service World: PACAC promises better gender balance after calling no women in stats inquiry
  
  11 March 2019
  Times Higher Education (THE): Royal Statistical Society: the TEF should have a health warning
  
  07 March 2019
  Fox News: Heading to Mexico for spring break? Here's a statistician's take on the risk vs. the reward
  
  07 March 2019
  Financial Times: Gender bias in data affect health and wealth (paywall)
  
  07 March 2019
  Research Fortnight: TEF awards are ‘invalid’, says Royal Statistical Society
  
  06 March 2019
  Media FHE: Calls for "misleading" TEF to be scrapped in current form
  
  20 February 2019
  Independent: Women still face 'massive gender bias' in UK workforce, new AI study finds
  
  19 February 2019
  Yomiuri Shimbun Japan: UK & USA – High-level training and expertise (print)
  
  13 February 2019
  Financial Times: How to stop computers being biased (paywall)
  
  13 February 2019
  Fox News: Valentine’s Day chocolate – here are some not so sweet facts
  
  12 February 2019
  The Guardian: Royal Statistical Society Christmas quiz 2018: how many puzzles did you solve?
  
  05 February 2019
  Dispatches, Channel 4: Skipping School: Britain's Invisible Kids
  
  17 January 2019
  This is Money: The billion-pound inflation blunder: Calculation error that boosted RPI has cost commuters and students dear, warns House of Lords
  
  15 January 2019
  Civil Service World: Nominations open for stats awards
  
  11 January 2019
  BBC Radio 4 More or Less: Deborah Ashby speaking about two Stats of the year
  
  04 January 2019
  World Economic Forum: We've created 6.3 billion tonnes of it.
  
  04 January 2019
  Fast Company: If you recycled the world’s plastic trash, you could buy Apple.

• 2018

  30 December 2018
  Observer: Life without plastic: pioneer families show how it's done (print, page 39)
  
  28 December 2018
  BBC 2 Christmas University Challenge: President Deborah Ashby on Christmas University Challenge.
  
  27 December 2018
  Stats and Stories: The Statistics of the Year, episode 76
  
  20 December 2018
  National Geographic: A whopping 91% of plastic isn't recycled.
  
  20 December 2018
  World Economic Forum: If you recycled all the plastic waste on the planet, you would be the world's richest person
  
  20 December 2018
  Radio NZ: The Panel with Bernard Hickey and Jo McCarroll
  
  19 December 2018
  FiveThirtyEight: Significant Digits For Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018
  
  19 December 2018
  the Stranger: This Is, Indeed, the Statistic of 2018: 90.5 Percent of Plastic Is Not Recycled
  
  19 December 2018
  CNN: Top statistic: Most plastic not recycled
  
  18 December 2018
  BBC Radio 4 Today programme: Dr Jen Rogers Discussing Statistics of the Year winners and highly commended
  
  18 December 2018
  BBC Radio Scotland, Good Morning Scotland: Dr Liberty Vittert discussing Statistics of the Year winners and highly commended
  
  18 December 2018
  STV Scotland Tonight: Dr Liberty Vittert discussing Statistics of the Year winners and highly commended
  
  18 December 2018
  The Guardian: Environment, Jaffa Cakes and Kylie Jenner star in statistics of the year
  
  18 December 2018
  Daily Mail: Study into plastic pollution named as 'international statistic of the year' after it revealed 90% of the material in the world has NEVER been recycled
  
  18 December 2018
  BBC News Online: 2018 statistic of the year: Plastic waste fact tops list
  
  18 December 2018
  Insider: Rise of renewables among statistics of the year
  
  18 December 2018
  Washington Post: Scary Stat 90.5% of plastic is not recycled (paywall)
  
  18 December 2018
  USA Today: The winner of Statistic of the Year: 90.5 percent of plastic is not recycled
  
  18 December 2018
  Newsweek: If you recycled all the plastic garbage in the world, you could buy the NFL, Apple and Microsoft
  
  18 December 2018
  The Conversation: If you recycled all the plastic garbage in the world, you could buy the NFL, Apple and Microsoft
  
  18 December 2018
  The Week UK: Why 90.5% has been declared the best statistic of 2018
  
  18 December 2018
  Metro: Jaffa Cakes are shrinking and there aren’t enough female bosses: 2018 in review
  
  18 December 2018
  I newspaper: Graphic of SOTY winner and highly commended (print, page 2)
  
  18 December 2018
  City AM: Figure out the best that statistics can offer (quiz) - (print, page 9)
  
  18 December 2018
  Times: Figures for speech (print, page 15 diary column)
  
  15 December 2018
  The Guardian: Royal Statistical Society Christmas quiz: 25th anniversary edition
  
  14 November 2018
  RTS (Swiss): De l’usage de la statistique en démocratie (with Hetan Shah)
  
  9 November 2018
  ComputerWorld UK: How Google is looking to ensure AI development is ethical and fair
  
  2 November 2018
  The Telegraph: New £50 note likely to feature female British scientist as nominations for women pour in
  
  24 October 2018
  BBC News Online: Winning ticket in $1.6bn US Mega Millions lottery jackpot
  
  22 October 2018
  Financial Times: How to save statistics from the threat of populism (paywall)
  
  20 October 2018
  The Herald: Grave of forgotten Scots hero who helped abolish slavery finally marked
  
  19 October 2018
  BBC Radio 4 Today Programme: Zachary Macaulay feature
  
  15 October 2018
  New Scientist: National bans on smacking children linked to less teenage violence (paywall)
  
  09 October 2018
  Civil Service World: DfE must do better on statistics says perm sec after watchdog's warning
  
  09 October 2018
  The Times: Education secretary Damian Hinds rebuked for misusing data
  
  08 October 2018
  BBC News Online: School funding 'exaggerated' by ministers, says watchdog
  
  08 October 2018
  Schools Week: The DfE’s repeated misuse of statistics is embarrassing
  
  05 October 2018
  Research Fortnight: Data partnership’s challenge is getting government to play ball (paywall)
  
  04 October 2018
  Nature: Rotating plots to form diamonds could prevent correlation-causation confusion
  
  04 October 2018
  BBC Radio 4 More or Less: Loneliness, School Funding, Same-sex divorce
  
  29 September 2018
  Financial Times: Curiosity can save us when lies come dressed as numbers (paywall)
  
  23 September 2018
  Times Higher Education: Interview with Deborah Ashby
  
  17 September 2018
  BBC News: Income 'not the only factor' in poverty
  
  17 September 2018
  The Telegraph: Half a million pensions 'out of poverty' overnight
  
  17 September 2018
  The Guardian: New study finds 4.5 million UK children living in poverty
  
  17 September 2018
  City AM: Changing the way the UK measures poverty
  
  16 September 2018
  Sunday Times: Middle class take more drink and drugs than poor (paywall)
  
  24 August 2018
  BBC News: Lies, damned lies and favourite stats
  
  21 August 2018
  The Independent: Yes, many GPs work only 3.5 days a week, but the number of hours they do should be respected
  
  19 August 2018
  The Independent: What shifting to RPI from CPI means for the average worker, beyond rail fares
  
  02 August 20018
  The Times: When to say when? Why alcohol advice needs its own health warning (paywall)
  
  20 July 2018
  The Verdict: Britain needs to improve data skills to survive post-Brexit
  
  17 July 2018
  Civil Service World: Defra celebrates statistics success
  
  11 July 2018
  Research Fortnight: The head of the Royal Statistical Society tells Daniel Cressey about public engagement and shaping policy in the age of big data (paywall)
  
  14 June 2018
  Times Higher Education: Laurie Taylor - The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton (paywall)
  
  7 June 2018
  Times Higher Education: Guy Nason - For statistical prowess, the TEF does not even get bronze (paywall)
  
  7 June 2018
  GQ: Alastair Campbell vs The Daily Mail
  
  1 June 2018
  The Guardian: Hetan Shah - Awarding university subjects gold medals is deeply flawed
  
  29 May 2018
  The Hindu: Data in a post-truth age
  
  29 May 2018
  The Financial Times: Tim Gardam - Embed ethical thinking in tech culture (paywall)
  
  23 May 2018
  The Register: UK.gov's use of black box algorithms to decide stuff needs watching
  
  23 May 2018
  City AM: The algorithmic society is upon us – time to learn how to shape it
  
  11 May 2018
  The Telegraph: Absurd that government uses flawed measure for student loan interest rates (paywall)
  
  11 May 2018
  The I: Nicky Morgan: The Government must reconsider absurd measure used to set high-interest rates on student loans
  
  25 April 2018
  Wonkhe: Universities’ evolving role in the ethics of data and artificial intelligence
  
  20 April 2018
  The Times: Definitely not OK - Ryanair’s latest claim (paywall)
  
  18 April 2018
  Womanthology: Celebrating awesome women in mathematics from around the globe
  
  12 April 2018
  Civil Service World: Civil servants subject to three-week local election purdah period from today
  
  7 April 2018
  The Times: Gender pay gap: Strange data shows something is not quite right (paywall)
  
  3 April 2018
  Campaign Live: Royal Statistical Society calls for tougher advertising code
  
  31 March 2018
  The Times: Big Brother is watching. And we’re next (paywall)
  
  28 March 2018
  Computer Weekly: £5m Ada Lovelace Institute launched to look into data ethics
  
  27 March 2018
  Nature: Hetan Shah: Use our personal data for the common good
  
  9 March 2018
  The Horwich Advertiser: Dr Ralph delivers Royal Statistical Society Lecture
  
  25 February 2018
  The Sunday Times: Highlight the negative and you risk damaging your wealth (paywall)
  
  15 February 2018
  The Guardian: The Royal Statistical Society Christmas quiz 2017: belated answers
  
  8 February 2018
  The Financial Times: A guide to statistics in a misleading age - Tim Harford (paywall)
  
  29 January 2018
  The Financial Times: ONS says data errors undermine UK emphasis on services (paywall)
  
  17 January 2018
  Civil Service World: RSS and UKSA award seeks to find the best use of official statistics
  
  12 January 2018
  Times Higher Education: A not-so-fond farewell to universities minister Jo Johnson (paywall)
  
  9 January 2018
  Daily Mail Online: RIP for the RPI?
  
  4 January 2018
  Bournemouth Daily Echo: 'Clearly overwhelming' opposition to hospital plans, says professor
  
  4 January 2018
  St Albans & Harpenden Review: Greener than you thought!
   

• 2017

  31 December 2017
  BBC More or Less World Service: Statistics of the Year 2017
  
  26 December 2017
  This is Money: Another year, another unfair rail fare hike
  
  21 December 2017 
  The Guardian: The Royal Statistical Society’s Annual Christmas Quiz
  
  18 December 2017
  Daily Mail Online: Statistics reveal more US citizens are killed by lawnmowers than Jihadi terrorists on average each year
  
  18 December 2017
  Financial Times: Best statistics of 2017 are 69 and 0.1 (paywall)
  
  18 December 2017
  The Sun: Americans are 34 times more likely to be killed each year by lawnmowers than jihadis
  
  The Irish Times: Americans more likely to be killed by lawnmowers than foreign terrorists
  
  Independent: Kim Kardashian's tweet named statistic of the year
  
  19 December 2017
  The Times: The year in statistics - It had a mean streak (paywall)
  
  19 December 2017
  BBC Newsbeat: Kim Kardashian's tweet is awarded stat of the year
  
  6 December 2017
  The Guardian: Letter to the Editor: RPI no longer fit for deciding rail fare rises
  
  29 November 2017
  The New Statesman: Slaying the Five Giants: the 75th anniversary of the Beveridge Report
  
  29 November 2017
  The Register: Why the new data ethics centre needs clout
  
  29 November 2017
  UK Authority: UK to get national advisory body for data and AI
  
  23 November 2017
  Civil Service World: Department for Education ‘risks losing trust’ with another stats breach
  
  23 November 2017
  Schools Week: DfE reprimanded by UK Statistics Authority
  
  17 November 2017
  Civil Service World: Hetan Shah: why the election showed purdah rules need to be reformed
  
  15 November 2017
  The Telegraph: Letter to the Editor: Taken for a ride by the Government’s inflation fix (paywall)
  
  31 October 2017
  The Register: Health quango: Booze 'evidence' not Puritan enough
  
  20 October 2017
  The Law Society Gazette: Lies and statistics: advocates get help with statistical evidence
  
  20 October 2017
  BBC Radio 4 The Today Programme: Puzzle for Today
  
  17 October 2017
  The Guardian: Maths graduates wanted
  
  11 October 2017
  Financial Times: Inflation isn’t what it used to be — and we’re poorer for it (paywall)
  
  5 October 2017
  Prospect Magazine: The future will be data-driven (paywall)
  
  4 October 2017
  The Washington Post: Americans who live closer to a mass shooting are more likely to support gun regulation
  
  30 September 2017
  BBC News Online: A halt to the spin cycle
  
  29 September 2017
  City AM: Editor’s Notes
  
  26 September 2017
  City AM: How to end politicians’ misuse of statistics and restore faith in data
  
  25 September 2017
  PHYS.ORG: Just what is our problem with numbers? An interview with Dr Jennifer Rogers
  
  25 September 2017
  Evening Express: System ‘undermines public trust’ in statistics, MSPs told
  
  19 September 2017
  The Times: How Boris got his numbers wrong (paywall)
  
  19 September 2017
  Financial Times: Academics urge universities’ pension fund to explain shortfall (paywall)
  
  18 September 2017
  BuzzFeed: Four Days Until Theresa May's Brexit Speech And It's All Going Really Well
  
  18 September 2017
  Financial Times: Boris Johnson’s Brexit claim displease UK statistics watchdog (paywall)
  
  17 September 2017 
  Independent: Christmas is a popular search term - and it's only September
  
  17 September 2017 
  The Guardian: Row grows over Boris Johnson £350m post-Brexit claim
  
  17 September 2017 
  The Telegraph: Boris Johnson accuses statistics regulator of 'wilfully distorting' his words  (paywall)
  
  14 September 2017
  The Guardian: Statistical vigilantes: the war on scientific fraud – Science Weekly podcast
  
  4 September 2017 
  The Scottish Herald: Expert warns over dumping information on patients
  
  3 September 2017 
  The Mail on Sunday: Expert demands urgent probe into NHS 'avoidable' fatalities
  
  31 August 2017 
  City AM: Statistics boss slam Home Office migration data leaks
  
  31 August 2017 
  The Guardian: UK Statistics Authority Chair criticises Home Office migration statistics leak
  
  29 August 2017 
  Civil Service World: Hetan Shah: Lessons for Whitehall from the migration statistics fiasco
  
  24 August 2017 
  The Economist: A letter to the Editor from Tony Cox, Chair of the RPI/CPI User Group (paywall)
  
  20 August 2017 
  The Telegraph: Thousands of students set to receive wrong grades, experts warn (paywall)
  
  12 August 2017 
  The Sunday Telegraph: Letters: knowing the price (paywall)
  
  10 August 2017
  Time Higher Education: Student activism has shown its power (paywall)