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Glad our #StatsoftheYear are highlighting in @DailyMailUK @MailOnline the high proportion (58%) of those in relative poverty who live in a working household https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7806633/amp/Growth-work-poverty-UKs-statistic-year-2019.html …pic.twitter.com/ulrydCnpwq
Our International Statistic of the Year is from the excellent @OurWorldInData - the estimated global average for life expectancy at birth in 2019 - 72.6 years - a really positive story that would have been easy to have missed
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7806633/amp/Growth-work-poverty-UKs-statistic-year-2019.html … #StatsoftheYearpic.twitter.com/kZehJVT6nX
Special thanks to @anthonybmasters for helping to factcheck the entries to our @RoyalStatSoc #StatsoftheYear
What do you think of the critique of (parts of) @OurWorldInData mentioned by Jessica Riskin of Stanford? Genuinely curioushttps://lareviewofbooks.org/article/pinkers-pollyannish-philosophy-and-its-perfidious-politics/…
Personally I'd distinguish @OurWorldInData which I think is one of the best attempts to bring together long range data with lessons that some (e.g. Pinker, Gates) have drawn from the data, which is obviously more contestable
Meanwhile, in the non-humanoid world...https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6471/eaax3100…
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