Ruth Alexander
speaker
4,250 appearances
120 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2011
last heard Aug 2018
Ruth Alexander’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm Ruth Alexander.
Numbers can be so powerful.
They can show you the world in a new light, move you to tears and even make you laugh.
And I hope you might experience that in a few minutes time when we hear a collection of our listeners' much-loved statistics.
But first...
Let's dwell on the sexy side of statistics.
In celebration of Valentine's Day, Tim Harford has asked Hannah Fry, the author of a new book, The Mathematics of Love, to give him an example of how numbers could improve our love lives.
She was talking to Tim Harford, and you can talk to us via our email address, more or less, at bbc.co.uk.
We love getting your questions and comments.
And we've been rummaging around in our inbox to put together a collection of your favourite statistics.
So here are our favourites of your favourites.
My favourite statistic?
85% of statistics.
More or less.
Since we like everyone to get their numbers right, including ourselves, it's time for a correction.
You may remember that last year the Office for National Statistics produced an estimate of the size of the sex industry in the UK, part of a standardisation of national accounts across the European Union.
Well, in the very first programme of this series, Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter joined us to explain why he thought the ONS numbers didn't really add up.
The ONS complained about what he said.
Here's a little clip.
We, like The Guardian and The Telegraph, explained that these ONS estimates had contributed to the additional demand for payment that the EU had handed to the UK government.
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