Whether we make statistics available about abortion does not divide itself on pro-life versus pro-choice lines.  

Natalie Hudson Sonnen has this in the National Post today about Canada’s shoddy abortion statistics.
One would think that pro-lifers and pro-choicers could band together on this, given that knowing the numbers is a neutral idea. One would think, …

I think all parents know that having kids has some economic impact on your life, but does this mean that we really need to think hard about the budget when we’re talking about our children? Of course we want our kids to one day go to college, eat healthy organic foods, and go to nice [...]

That number can go up or down depending on our definition of ‘illness’

From the National Post, Four of Canada’s fastest growing cities are in the West, where Calgary and Edmonton have posted the highest percentage increases in population among the country’s 33 metropolitan areas. Calgary grew by 12.6% between 2006 and 2011, Edmonton by 12.1%, Saskatoonby 11.4% and Kelowna, B.C., by 10.8%. Now, I’m not saying that has anything to do with Ruth Lobo Shaw reinstating the [...]

Yesterday was my 1000 post, according to Blogger which keeps track of such things.  The little map I have on my blog site to the right and about half way down says I have had 46,729 hits since I started.  Since it seems to count whenever I go there t…

(En español más abajo)   Exactly a year ago, my blog was at its peak in terms of popularity. I had averages of 140/150 visits per day and many friends and blog buddies would come to leave their comments very often -or just to heckle me! &nbs…

… can be found here… interesting stats. Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario – Syndicated from http://trashysworld.ca

Yes, there are lies, damned lies, and statistics.This blog post (below) is interesting. But is it only me? They do not appear to have controlled for all the variables. Their hypothesis, that the way they word an invoice determines how quickly they get …

The pressure to be sexually active comes at us all from various angles. The ads we see each day run the gamut from subtle ads for “performance enhancing” drugs to use later in life (when some of us may not even want to be all that sexually active) to the more aggressive ones, continuously targeting younger and [...]

Rob Nicholson, July 2008. “We don’t govern by statistics in our government.”
Rob Nicholson, July…

Press release here: According to an Abacus Data poll, 40 per cent of respondents think abortion should be available but only funded in medical emergencies, while 11 per cent think abortion should be available but never funded, and 10 per cent do not think abortion should be available at all. In contrast, 30 per cent [...]

New figures show a 69% response rate for the National Household Survey—higher than Statistics…

A classic example of probability asks whether a million monkeys, given a million typewriters, could ever recreate a work of Shakespeare by chance. A programmer from Nevada is now giving virtual monkeys a chance, but biologist Richard Dawkins’ weasels beat them to it.

I particularly like the last paragraph on the BBC 4 site:
“…without statistics we are cast adrift on an ocean of confusion, but armed with stats we can take control of our lives, hold our rulers to account and see the world as it really is….

The Mongol Rally may be over for our teams The Social Media Syndicate, but it is just beginning for the people that are signing up for 2012!

Men and women both seem to love the same group of Android apps, but in slightly different ways.

Zamboni’s research almost certainly has to have been junk

Today I encountered this story about lost, stolen, resold and fraudulent transit passes for university students. In it, Translink claims to be “losing as much as $15 million…prompting officials to threaten to cancel the student program if the problem persists”: About 80,000 U-Passes were provided to students this year at the University of B.C., Emily [...]

So the rich are getting richer. What does it mean for the rest of us? Not much.