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6 days ago · The Isle of Arran, as I’m sure you all know, is on the west side of Scotland Being an island, it has somewhat limited means of access: Caledonian MacBrayne run two ferries from the mainland. These ferries are being replaced with allegedly better ferries. However, the BBC headline said ‘Green’ ferry emits more CO2 than old diesel ship. In reply, “Ferries procurement agency CMAL, which ...
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6 days ago · Ok, this is a bit late, but I didn’t see the poll (in a physical Sunday Star-Times) until this week. An established Australian polling firm, Freshwater Strategy, have been doing polls here, too. Stuff reports that the poll (also, at the Post) …reveals 37% …
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Team Ratings for Week 9. This is the promised update after the Dragons v Cardiff Rugby game. The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ratings at the start of the season.
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Jan 2, 2025 · Team Ratings for Week 9. This is the promised update after the Dragons v Cardiff Rugby game. The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ratings at the start of the season.
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Apr 23, 2018 · Ipsos MORI do a nice set of surveys about public misperceptions: ask a sample of people for their estimate of a number and compare it to the actual value.. The newest set includes a question about the proportion of the prison population than are immigrants. Here’s (a redrawing of) their graph, with NZ in all black.
United Rugby Championship Predictions for Week 8 | Stats Chat
Dec 3, 2024 · David Scott obtained a BA and PhD from the Australian National University and then commenced his university teaching career at La Trobe University in 1972. He has taught at La Trobe University, the University of Sheffield, Bond University and Colorado State University, joining the University of Auckland, based at Tamaki Campus, in mid-1995.
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2 days ago · The top baby names from New Zealand last year are out. As we’ve seen in the past, the most-common names keep getting less common.“Noah” came top for boys, with only 250 uses, and “Isla” for girls, with only 190 uses. The Daily Mail (because of course) has something purporting to be a map of penis sizes around the world, credited to this site, which gives no sources for the data.
2020 | Stats Chat
Performance So Far. So far there have been 77 matches played, 53 of which were correctly predicted, a success rate of 68.8%. Here are the predictions for last week’s games.
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Dec 31, 2021 · Arithmetic fail by Bloomberg Australia: 126 cases over two days is not ‘more than double’ 62 cases in one day. They’ve since edited to “N.Z. Adds 126 Cases in 2 Days…New Zealand’s daily toll of new local infections has risen from the 62 reported on Dec. 24.”, which is at least arithmetically correct, since 2×62 is 124, and 126 is larger than 124.
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Oct 7, 2024 · David Scott obtained a BA and PhD from the Australian National University and then commenced his university teaching career at La Trobe University in 1972. He has taught at La Trobe University, the University of Sheffield, Bond University and Colorado State University, joining the University of Auckland, based at Tamaki Campus, in mid-1995.