Annual Conference Programme Announced
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The Radical Statistics Conference, Statistics to Inform Radical Change, will be held in central London on 24th February, 2024, followed by the Annual General Meeting – all welcome! Register in advance or on the door. Topics Education Artificial Intelligence Decolonialising quantitative methods The uncounted part I: Surveys in the UK and Ukraine The uncounted part II: Unsettled populations and data Invisibilised in India With lunch and social events – join us ..read more
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Contents of this Issue There are three papers in i...
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4M ago
Contents of this Issue There are three papers in issue 135. John Bibby’s appreciation of a long-standing Radical Statistics member and activist; Janet Shapiro. This is followed by a powerful empirical paper by Frank Houghton et al, on data suppression around maternal mortality in Idaho, USA.  Finally, Simeon Scott and Mark Dunkerley present a critical examination of the interplay between money, markets and inequality, a paper they first presented at the Sheffield Radical Statistics conference in March 2023. RadStats Journal / Newsletter The Radical Statistics editorial team has expanded b ..read more
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Introduction and Editorial, Issue 134 (with memorial to Roy Carr-Hill)
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10M ago
Contents of this Issue There is one poem, three papers and one book review in this issue.  In addition to a poem for and paper from Roy Carr-Hill (see below), Zohreen Badruddin worked with Diana Kornbrot to convert Diana’s RadStats conference paper on the infrastructure needed for Universal Basic Income (UBI) into the one published here. This is followed by a paper by Sean Demack on HE equality analyses involving ethnicity which reveals several (onion) layers of problematic statistical practice. Finally, Irina Motoc reviews a book on data visualization by Maarten Boers. Roy Carr-Hill 1943 ..read more
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What does AI ‘think’ of Radical Statistics?
Radical Statistics Group | Using statistics to support progressive social change
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1y ago
Guest Author: John Bibby I was doodling with WordPress the other day and noted that it has a new option – “AI paragraph (experimental)”.  Another new option is “AI image (experimental)”. I tried the first option and put “Radical Statistics” as the prompt for an experimental paragraph. After ten seconds, this is what it gave me: Radical Statistics is a field of study that aims to challenge the status quo and traditional methods of gathering and interpreting data. It is about recognizing the power dynamics that affect the collection of statistics and understanding the impact that data can h ..read more
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Editorial, Issue 133
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1y ago
Contents of this Issue In this, relatively short, issue we have two very interesting articles. The first by Chris Tofallis, Thomas Dunk and Neil Spencer from Hertfohttp://journal/issue133rdshire, after a forensic analysis of what MPs should be doing, focuses on constructing a ‘League Table’ of MPs performance in Parliament based on speeches made, written questions submitted and votes attended. The second by Manjinder Jagdev is another forensic examination of how racism permeated the national curricula for primary and secondary schools and how to get rid of it. Because of a an internal mix-up ..read more
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Radstats 132 Editorial
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1y ago
Contents of this Issue In this, relatively short, issue 132 we have two very interesting articles, both based on papers ‘delivered’ at the virtual conference that was hosted by the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne on the theme of ‘Taxing Wealth, Reducing Inequality’, held on Saturday 26th February 2022. John Bibby extrapolates Ten Commandments for fiscal and statistical literacy and Stewart Lansley documents how the post-WWII advances of the Atlee government have been nearly all wiped out since 1970. In addition, this editor [Roy Carr-Hill] has included a letter that h ..read more
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Radstats Issue 131 Editorial
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1y ago
Issue 131 is available, open access, at https://www.radstats.org.uk/journal/issue131. Editorial Following on from the discussions at the London Conference in February 2020, I asked contributors if they would agree to a student converting their power-point presentations into short texts. This has again been partly successful this year. We did manage to get two of the presentations at the 2021 Conference converted to text and these were included in the last issue. In this, relatively short, issue we have two very interesting articles by Serena Hussein questioning Census Categories and Paul March ..read more
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Radstats Issue 131 available!
Radical Statistics Group | Using statistics to support progressive social change
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2y ago
Issue 131 is available, open access, at https://www.radstats.org.uk/journal/issue131. Editorial Following on from the discussions at the London Conference in February 2020, I asked contributors if they would agree to a student converting their power-point presentations into short texts. This has again been partly successful this year. We did manage to get two of the presentations at the 2021 Conference converted to text and these were included in the last issue. In this, relatively short, issue we have two very interesting articles by Serena Hussein questioning Census Categories and Paul March ..read more
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50% off Data in Society
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2y ago
Data in Society Challenging Statistics in an Age of Globalisation Edited by Jeff Evans, Sally Ruane and Humphrey Southall 50% off, until Sunday 17 January, from Policy Press. https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/data-in-society     ..read more
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Conference 2022 Save the Date: 26 February
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2y ago
Next year’s conference titled Taxing Wealth, Reducing Inequality is scheduled take place on Saturday, 26 February in central Newcastle at the Lit & Phil Library. The link above provides very basic information but the events are being developed and the conference is shaping up. There is still time to get involved in the planning. Please let us know if you can help in any way. And there is space to give a talk or presentation. We are particularly looking for breadth in age, race and gender. If you think someone might be interested, that would also be helpful. Finally health matters obviously ..read more
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