Statistics
More single mums than marriages…
Here’s one for you:
THE number of young women having children has for the first time exceeded the number getting married, official figures revealed yesterday.
A survey of those in Britain aged 25 to 29 found that 24 per cent had tied the knot before 25, while 30 per cent had at least one child.
But of women in their mid-to-late 30s, 45 per cent were married before 25, while only a third were mums. The survey was conducted between 2001 and 2003.
The figures were from the Office for National Statistics in its annual Social Trends study of how Britain is changing.
What a load of balls…
There’s a load of statistics that actually mean didly squat. Why can’t laws be introduced to only allow these things to be used in context with enough data to make them of some use? I guess the Suns article wouldn’t be quite as eye catching with standard deviations thrown in.
The Beginning
So, I spend a lot of time reading things, or watching the news thinking how ridiculous the statistics used are. The only use of statistics appears to be to make the public think whatever the media like, statistics are handy because they can be interpreted however you like. Yeah, the media seems to enjoy this to the extent that it is almost comic.
Most irritating, for some reason, are hair adverts. Do they think that women can not work out how stupid these things are, or perhaps they can’t.
So, anyhoo, that’s what you are going to find here. Inane ramblings about the stupidity of statistics, or perhaps just the general public who are fooled by them.