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    10% fall in university students doing alt med

    Click here to download:
    2009-10-21 Provisional Final figures.docx (69 KB)
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    2009-10-21 Provisional Final figures.docx (69 KB)

    Two things I find interesting about this:

    1. fewer "complementary medicine" students, which is nice, because these are courses where they teach students how to cherry pick, obfuscate on when and where it is possible to do a trial, and so on. which is bad.

    2. they reckon that journalism is a safe profession, so while we hope the factual content in this document, the figures themselves, are all correct, the people writing the interpretive aspects of the press release are plainly fools. 
    • 21 October 2009
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    over 2 years ago Alix responded:
    Ditto "business related courses". Among the highly biased sample of people-I-know who work in various aspects of tech, media, marketing and communications, first degrees in history, English lit. and the like are slightly more prevalent than business-related courses. And as an added bonus they teach one about hyphens.

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    I like stats. I'm a doctor. I write about dodgy scientific claims in my spare time.

    This isn't my main blog. Find me here:

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    Book:
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    TED talk:
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