The Conversation

If 1% of COVID‑19 cases result in death, does that mean you have a 1% chance of dying if you catch it? A mathematician explains the difference between a population statistic ...

As of April 2023, about 1% of people who contracted COVID-19 ended up dying. Does that mean you have a 1% chance of dying from COVID-19? The goal of calculating a statistic like case fatality rate is ...
The Guardian

Environment, Jaffa Cakes and Kylie Jenner star in statistics of the year

Top prize goes to 90.5%, the proportion of plastic waste that has never been recycled The environment, Jaffa Cakes and the reality star Kylie Jenner all feature in 2018’s statistics of the year. Among ...