VENUE: Manchester Metropolitan University DATES: Saturday, 1 March from 9:30 to 5:00 SOCIALS: Friday from 5 pm onward, & an optional Saturday evening dinner. TBA. WALKABOUT: a guided Peace Walk will occur on Sunday morning. TBA. DETAILS: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/radical statistics-50th-anniversary-conference-tickets-1063835794499 Friday ..read more

As we put the final touches to this special issue we just learned of the re-election of Donald Trump as President of the USA. His campaign was to a significant degree fueled by xenophobic and racist hate, with promises of ..read more

Radical Statistics’ 2025 Conference (the 50th annual conference!) will take place at Manchester Metropolitan University on Saturday, 1 March.  There will be Friday & Saturday social events and an Annual General Meeting. More details to follow ..read more

The Radical Statistics Conference, Statistics to Inform Radical Change, will be held in central London on 24th February, 2024, followed by the Annual General Meeting – all welcome! Register in advance or on the door. Topics Education Artificial Intelligence Decolonialising quantitative methods The uncounted part I: Surveys in the UK and Ukraine The uncounted part II: Unsettled populations and data Invisibilised in India With lunch and social events – join us ..read more

Contents of this Issue There are three papers in issue 135. John Bibby’s appreciation of a long-standing Radical Statistics member and activist; Janet Shapiro. This is followed by a powerful empirical paper by Frank Houghton et al, on data suppression around maternal mortality in Idaho, USA.  Finally, Simeon Scott and Mark Dunkerley present a critical examination of the interplay between money, markets and inequality, a paper they first presented at the Sheffield Radical Statistics conference in March 2023. RadStats Journal / Newsletter The Radical Statistics editorial team has expanded b ..read more

Contents of this Issue There is one poem, three papers and one book review in this issue.  In addition to a poem for and paper from Roy Carr-Hill (see below), Zohreen Badruddin worked with Diana Kornbrot to convert Diana’s RadStats conference paper on the infrastructure needed for Universal Basic Income (UBI) into the one published here. This is followed by a paper by Sean Demack on HE equality analyses involving ethnicity which reveals several (onion) layers of problematic statistical practice. Finally, Irina Motoc reviews a book on data visualization by Maarten Boers. Roy Carr-Hill 1943 ..read more

Guest Author: John Bibby I was doodling with WordPress the other day and noted that it has a new option – “AI paragraph (experimental)”.  Another new option is “AI image (experimental)”. I tried the first option and put “Radical Statistics” as the prompt for an experimental paragraph. After ten seconds, this is what it gave me: Radical Statistics is a field of study that aims to challenge the status quo and traditional methods of gathering and interpreting data. It is about recognizing the power dynamics that affect the collection of statistics and understanding the impact that data can h ..read more

Contents of this Issue In this, relatively short, issue we have two very interesting articles. The first by Chris Tofallis, Thomas Dunk and Neil Spencer from Hertfohttp://journal/issue133rdshire, after a forensic analysis of what MPs should be doing, focuses on constructing a ‘League Table’ of MPs performance in Parliament based on speeches made, written questions submitted and votes attended. The second by Manjinder Jagdev is another forensic examination of how racism permeated the national curricula for primary and secondary schools and how to get rid of it. Because of a an internal mix-up ..read more

Contents of this Issue In this, relatively short, issue 132 we have two very interesting articles, both based on papers ‘delivered’ at the virtual conference that was hosted by the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne on the theme of ‘Taxing Wealth, Reducing Inequality’, held on Saturday 26th February 2022. John Bibby extrapolates Ten Commandments for fiscal and statistical literacy and Stewart Lansley documents how the post-WWII advances of the Atlee government have been nearly all wiped out since 1970. In addition, this editor [Roy Carr-Hill] has included a letter that h ..read more

Issue 131 is available, open access, at https://www.radstats.org.uk/journal/issue131. Editorial Following on from the discussions at the London Conference in February 2020, I asked contributors if they would agree to a student converting their power-point presentations into short texts. This has again been partly successful this year. We did manage to get two of the presentations at the 2021 Conference converted to text and these were included in the last issue. In this, relatively short, issue we have two very interesting articles by Serena Hussein questioning Census Categories and Paul March ..read more