Surveys On Rape And The Need For Clean Stats
Recently we asked you what really pushes your buttons and makes you angry. You may have answered, you may not – I hadn’t, and didn’t intend to… but bugger it, my spleen needs venting. So here goes – I...
View ArticleRude Cockneys, Shrewd Women, Skewed Surveys: Who’d Have Thought It Was All PR?
Few things in life amuse me as much as blatant PR passing off as news. I’ve said that before, and it remains true. So, on this Easter Monday, I thought I’d set you all a little quiz – look at the...
View ArticleBad PR: The Adulterated Truth
Getting a PR-fluff-piece into the news is easy, as I’ve shown before – take a survey, manufacture a surprising result (through data-mining, biased sampling or leading questions), and push it out with a...
View ArticleBad PR: Misogyny on the Bounty
As readers of this site will probably know, I have a bit of a beef when it comes to bullshit PR companies spouting Bad PR, and in particular with a company by the name of OnePoll.com. OnePoll is an...
View ArticleBad News: Are Kids Turning Their Backs On Sports?
The following is taken in part from Episode 46 of our podcast ‘Skeptics with a K’, give or take the odd addition. A generation of children ‘turn their backs on sport’ – so said the BBC recently. And...
View ArticleBad News Prediction: Gossip, Girls!
Regular readers of this site – albeit ones with long memories (I’ve been bad for the whole blogging malarky for a while, I know) – will know that from time to time I like to take a punt on what I think...
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