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New Blog Post 📝 Everyone is entitled to their opinion. However. As teachers, its important that we keep our opinions to ourselves and offer a balanced view. The balance is difficult, but in an increasingly political world, we could have undue influence. open.substack.com/pub/joel1201...

For mathematicians, a bit of More or Less can work wonders, and you can usually isolate a short segment debunking whatever bullshit Farage or the Daily Fail is putting out, all under the guise of understanding statistics in the real world.

I do love a good "look at this graph" when it comes to some of the stuff I hear come out.

Some of the graphs on campaign flyers make great examples of what not to do. As I recall, there were some prize examples from the Lib Dems where the graphs bore little relation to the numbers printed next to them.