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‘Kids in sport stay out of court’ – Sport NZ to help curb youth offending from RNZ. This is another one of these cause and effect ones. Is it that being pushed into sport makes kids less likely to offend? Is it that kids with the qualities — self-control, work ethic, parents who drive you to games — to engage with sport are less likely to commit dumb crimes? Or (as anonymous law commenter @StrictlyObiter suggests) is it that “promising young sportsmen” are more likely to get a discharge without conviction? Or, more likely, all of the above in some complicated mixture
- From the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science at Oxford, another example of counting being hard. They wanted to find out how much of each medication was used across the National Health Service
- On pizza as a leading indicator of US military activity
- It’s twenty years since XKCD did a big colour survey, showing people coloured patches and asking for colour names. Nicola Rennie made this poster of the top (ie, most agreed on) colour names — click to embiggen.
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