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India’s language battle
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Travel with tags Assamese, Bengali, BJP, Bodo, Darjeeling, Dogri, English, Gujarati, Gurkhas, Hindi, Hinduism, Kannada, Karnataka, Kashmiri, Konkani, lingua franca, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, The Guardian, Urdu on January 13, 2023 by xi'anwarmest wishes
Posted in Statistics with tags The Guardian, China, monkeys, wildlife photography, British Wildlife Photography Awards, Natural History Museum, Wildlife Photographer of the Year on January 1, 2023 by xi'ankeep calm & enjoy the landscape
Posted in Statistics with tags The Guardian, landscape photography, rainbow, hiking, UK landscape, Staffordshire, Peak District, Dragon's Back on December 23, 2022 by xi'anwrong statistics
Posted in Books, Statistics with tags delivery vans, pedestrians, reckless driving, road accidents, road rage, road statistics, The Guardian, UK, United Kingdom, vans on November 2, 2022 by xi'anThe Guardian reported today on a larger probability for men drivers to kill/injure a pedestrian, when compared with female drivers. Which is somewhat misleading. The figures report on the probability that the driver is male, given a serious collision occurred. But it does not directly reflect on the (very probable!) gender difference in dangerousity, i.e. the difference in the probabilities that a female driver vs. a male driver run over a pedestrian because it does not account for the probable difference in women vs. men drivers on the road at any given time, or on the mileage accumulated by each gender over a given year. Which differs by almost two… (As mentioned in the article, a disproportionate percentage of accidents are due to vans, which again are more likely to be driven by men.)