{"id":690,"date":"2007-11-08T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=690"},"modified":"2007-11-08T08:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T14:23:00","slug":"tackling-journalistic-innumeracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/11\/tackling-journalistic-innumeracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tackling journalistic innumeracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">T<\/span>alking of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">RSS<\/span>, the  <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rss.org.uk\/main.asp?page=0\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Statistical Society<\/a> is running a <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">FREE<\/span> workshop for journalists to help them get more out of the statistics in the public domain &#8211; \u201cwhether from government, other public bodies or the private sector.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Editors &#8211; should you send hard-pressed reporters? Well, equipping reporters with the skills to knock down flip story ideas seems like a waste of time to me. They\u2019ll only feel bad when made to do the story anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Just kidding stats guys! Here is the blurb: <span id=\"fullpost\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Focusing on real stories, topics include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>surveys &#8211; are the conclusions reached really supported by the evidence?<\/li>\n<li>pilot studies &#8211; how can you know if a piloted policy really has made a difference?<\/li>\n<li>league tables &#8211; are the data any good? Is there really any news behind the figures?<\/li>\n<li>sample sizes, randomisation, confidence intervals &#8211; what the technical language means<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You will get tips on asking searching questions and how to avoid statistical pitfalls and fallacies &#8211; all from leading statisticians with wide experience of working with the media.<\/p>\n<p>Date:  Monday, 26 November 2007<\/p>\n<p>Time: Either 09:30 to 12:30<br \/>        Or 14:00 to 17:00<\/p>\n<p>There is no charge.<\/p>\n<p>To register call Andrew Garratt on 020 7614 3920 or email <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">a dot garratt AT rss dot org dot uk<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking of RSS, the Royal Statistical Society is running a FREE workshop for journalists to help them get more out of the statistics in the public domain &#8211; \u201cwhether from government, other public bodies or the private sector.\u201d Editors &#8211; should you send hard-pressed reporters? Well, equipping reporters with the skills to knock down flip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-journalists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}