It’s not as bad as you think

Stats Chat 2013-07-11

Summary:

The Royal Statistical Society has just commissioned an opinion poll to look at beliefs about policy-relevant issues and how they relate to reality.  The first few results: Teenage pregnancy: on average, we think teenage pregnancy is 25 times higher than official estimates: we think that 15% of girls under16 get pregnant each year, when official figures [...]

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Tags:

politics risk polls just look it up

Authors:

Thomas Lumley

Date tagged:

07/11/2013, 03:42

Date published:

07/10/2013, 22:50