The BBC Wales reported commended for tasteful depoliticised image selection.
The BBC Scotland reported condemned as ‘political’ and inappropriate.
The BBC Wales mortality graph which one judge described as ‘unique, in all of UK media, in its accurate use of a line graph to show an actual trend, as opposed to a distorted and scaremongering pile-up of death!’
BBC Scotland’s preferred graph, described by one of the judges (14) as: ‘All wrong! I knew when I was in P7, how to use a line graph properly. Who are those eejits at BBC Scotland?’
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Strange that , BBC Scotland is dominated by Labour luvvies , you would imagine BBC Wales would be also , so where is the difference ? , oh I know , it’s an SNP government in Scotland ! .
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Could be the cause for worst journalism but are there any real journalists employed by BBC Scotland in their Glasgow “bunker”. Too many opinionated hacks.
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Are the BBC’s journalists even working in Scotland? I like to keep a note of what kind of ‘reporting’ we get from them and, man, it’s a gruesome tally of murdurs, road accidents and anti-Scottish Government nonsense.
And, of course, the best bit about the BBC is there’s nowhere to take issue with their posts, unless you write them a letter, but that will bring you the stock response ‘we stand by our editorial decisions.’
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Really, the best statistic you can use is ‘days for death to double’ – Scotland is at 4.2days for death to double, which is good & once we get to a week we are really on the right trajectory. Even then we can’t really know the actual stats , different countries use different reporting criteria and I don’t know what ours is – does anyone know?
A percentage is pretty useless except for comparison with previous days, as long a the number of tests remains the same. Raw numbers, doesn’t tell us anything about trends.
I’ve got a couple of questions to put out there to see if anyone knows:
Why is the radio giving me more information about Spain’s situation than our own? They are focusing on Spain to the exclusion of all other countries.
Who is the mystery ‘organisation’ that is organising the clap for NHS?
(Sorry, but I laughed after writing down that last bit, just realising how it could be misconstrued 😀 )
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Great! Thanks I laughed too. Feels good. I did have syphillus but it’s gon now?
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‘Really, the best statistic you can use is ‘days for death to double’ – Scotland is at 4.2days for death to double, ‘
Did you just work that out is published somewhere?
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Keep TELLIN’ ye john… this guy is putting together all the Scottish stats every day:
https://www.travellingtabby.com/scotland-coronavirus-tracker/
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So glad to see your post, Contrary. I run the risk of repeating myself with my questions about the Coronavirus data. Are there no statisticians out there who could provide the data we want? I don’t mind if the stats are provided by the WHO or the ONS or some boay on his laptop in his back room. But I resent the idea I’m getting from mainstream media that we’re too thick to understand what’s going on.
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Seems to be a whole load of unqualified data being thrown together to give big scary figures with no context as far as I can tell – different reporting criteria from different countries and changing the criteria half way through – we won’t know until after the fact I guess, when detailed information is given to the statisticians. I might be at the stage of ignoring it all until afterwards – where it is likely to turn out to be similar to a bad flu epidemic.
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Just heard FM say that the death toll has increased, due to 40 deaths from the past being reclassified.
Let’s see what BBC does with this, a dignified analysis on why?
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The BBC (online) says:
“Ms Sturgeon said “a delay in family liaison” was behind the additional 40 deaths being added to the overall figure on Thursday.”
They have TOTALLY thrown off all the graphs and the tracking and everything now, no smooth curves for us.
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Sorry, link:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-52137361?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/c50znx8v14xt/nicola-sturgeon&link_location=live-reporting-story
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Where’s Sarah Smith when you need her..,.??!
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Sorry, but the cumulative graph is of more use than the daily numbers. As an engineer I read the graph as a gradient and really shows the progress of the pandemic deaths. When the gradient returns to something more horizontal and hopefully asymtotic we can be confident that we are getting through.
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