David Cantrell 🏏#Amazon are trying to advertise some streaming sport event to me, Hornets vs Spurs. In what mad world are #RochdaleHornets (a #RugbyLeague team) playing #TottenhamHotspur (an #AssociationFootball team)? That's an impressive cock-up.
John E. Bartley, III (D) K7AAYhttps://gizmodo.com/study-promoting-apple-cider-vinegar-for-weight-loss-was-complete-bunk-2000662807 #nutrition #health #baddata #badstudy #fakescience #weightloss
Downes 🍁It's interesting. After every Teams meeting a popup appears asking 'how was the quality of the audio/video?' along with a five star rating. I always give it five stars, not because it was great, but because if you give it anything other than five stars it grills you to have you say exactly what was wrong with it. #darkpatterns #baddata
Richard R LeeThe #shitstorm at the #DepartmentofBogusNumbers (#ONS) is a #perfectstorm of #Incompetence, #hubris & #politicalcapture culminating in the complete lack of #DataLeadership from the top cascading down to the rank & file. #GovernmentStatistics #baddata.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/22/fears-grow-over-impact-of-ons-data-reliability-on-rachel-reeves-budget?CMP=share_btn_url
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/22/fears-grow-over-impact-of-ons-data-reliability-on-rachel-reeves-budget?CMP=share_btn_url
TiggyI used to be in a team that was responsible for the education and training questions, then in a team that published labour market data, then moved onto compendia publications.
Both the LFS and the Census were key data for much of my career.
I hadn't kept up with the post covid changes - and am very sad to see how it has gone downhill.
But not surprised it failed during a government into cost cutting but not transparency.
John Burns
Mark WhybirdInspired by some amusing #badData received today at work: Using "&" for "and" in country names.
Probably OK (but please escape it as needed):
Antigua & Barbuda
Bosnia & Herzegovina
etc...
Not OK:
&dorra
Rw&a
*land(s) - Finl&, Thial&, New Zeal&, Netherl&s, etc...
#programminghumour #programminghumor #programming #software #softwareGore
flatplanet
#BadData #Bad Analysis
"In most cases differences between dietary groups were not statistically significant. However, small numbers of vegan cats affected by disorders may have prevented the detection of statistically significant differences between diet groups..."
Yet:
"Jointly considering seven general indicators of health and 22 specific health disorders, cats fed vegan diets tended to be healthier than those fed meat-based diets."
Vegan versus meat-based cat food
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0284132#sec007
Vegan versus meat-based cat food: Guardian-reported health outcomes in 1,369 cats, after controlling for feline demographic factors
Increasing concerns about environmental sustainability, farmed animal welfare and competition for traditional protein sources, are driving considerable development of alternative pet foods. These include raw meat diets, in vitro meat products, and diets based on novel protein sources including terrestrial plants, insects, yeast, fungi and potentially seaweed. To study health outcomes in cats fed vegan diets compared to those fed meat, we surveyed 1,418 cat guardians, asking about one cat living with them, for at least one year. Among 1,380 respondents involved in cat diet decision-making, health and nutrition was the factor considered most important. 1,369 respondents provided information relating to a single cat fed a meat-based (1,242–91%) or vegan (127–9%) diet for at least a year. We examined seven general indicators of illness. After controlling for age, sex, neutering status and primary location via regression models, the following risk reductions were associated with a vegan diet for average cats: increased veterinary visits– 7.3% reduction, medication use– 14.9% reduction, progression onto therapeutic diet– 54.7% reduction, reported veterinary assessment of being unwell– 3.6% reduction, reported veterinary assessment of more severe illness– 7.6% reduction, guardian opinion of more severe illness– 22.8% reduction. Additionally, the number of health disorders per unwell cat decreased by 15.5%. No reductions were statistically significant. We also examined the prevalence of 22 specific health disorders, using reported veterinary assessments. Forty two percent of cats fed meat, and 37% of those fed vegan diets suffered from at least one disorder. Of these 22 disorders, 15 were most common in cats fed meat, and seven in cats fed vegan diets. Only one difference was statistically significant. Considering these results overall, cats fed vegan diets tended to be healthier than cats fed meat-based diets. This trend was clear and consistent. These results largely concur with previous, similar studies.
JérômeDonc finalement c'est BEAUCOUP de mauvaises données, il manque des profs un peu mais c'est une question dans les centaines, pas les milliers. À se demander à quel point ça arrive souvent que le gouvernement a aucune idée de ce qui se passe sur le terrain
