Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrss1
Are there more black men in college or prison in the US?
Only last week Ivory Toldson heard the speaker say there are more black men in prison in America than in college. ‘Here we go again’ he thought. Only the week before he had written his second article on why this statistic is not true. This week Ruth Alexander looks at where this ‘fact’ came from and why it is still being used. Also, why the opinion polls got the Kenyan elections wrong.