Everyday Politics
StatisTRICKS: when data deceives
How data and facts in the news can be put across in different ways depending on the desired outcome, and what this means for us as readers.
Have you heard? Organ donation no longer needs your active consent
On the 20th March 2020 amidst the hysteria of the pandemic, three days before Boris Johnson announced the first lockdown the law around organ donation in England was transformed. Rather than an opt-in system, we now operate an opt-out system. Despite this radical transformation, the change received minimal media attention and one year on it […]
