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Слава Україні!
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Running with tags Слава Україні, I.O.C., Milan Cortina Winter Games, Olympic ban, politics, Russia, Russian influence, Russian invasion, skeleton, Solidarity with Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukrainian People's Republic, XXV Winter Olympic Games on February 12, 2026 by xi'an
International Women’s Day 2024
Posted in Books, Kids, Mountains, pictures, Statistics, Travel with tags 8 March, child marriage, gender equality, International D, International Women's Day, marriage, politics, poster, UNESCO, United Nations, Women’s Rights and Gender Equality on March 8, 2024 by xi'an
total respect!
Posted in Kids, pictures, Travel with tags abortion rights, Jacinda Ardern, Labour, LGBT rights, Murupara, New Zealand, politics on January 21, 2023 by xi'an
both sides [no comment]
Posted in Statistics with tags anti-Nazis, dictature, Donald Trump, ethics, extreme-right, far-right, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, Maduro, Nazis, politics, quotes, sides, UK politics, United Kingdom, US politics, USA, Venezuela on August 28, 2017 by xi'an
“I think there is blame on both sides and I have no doubt about it.” Donald Trump, Aug 15, 2017
“What I condemn is the violence that’s been done by any side, by all sides, in all this.” Jeremy Corbyn, Aug 7, 2017
the other end of statistics
Posted in Books, pictures, Statistics with tags big data, INSEE, Le Monde, official statistics, politics, public opinion, The Guardian on February 8, 2017 by xi'an
A coincidence [or not] saw very similar papers appear in Le Monde and The Guardian within days. I already reported on the Doomsday tone of The Guardian tribune. The point of the other paper is essentially the same, namely that the public has lost trust in quantitative arguments, from the explosion of statistical entries in political debates, to the general defiance against experts, media, government, and parties, including the Institute of Official Statistics (INSEE), to a feeling of disconnection between statistical entities and the daily problems of the average citizen, to the lack of guidance and warnings in the publication of such statistics, to the rejection of anything technocratic… With the missing addendum that politicians and governments too readily correlate good figures with their policies and poor ones with their opponents’. (Just no blame for big data analytics in this case.)
