Losing a tenner and finding a quid 55
Posted on
August 01, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Archive for the ‘stats’
The big decision 77
Posted on
July 30, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
You’ve bravely waded through a 3500-word book review already this morning, so let’s give you something a little more bite-sized to digest.
This one could be a game-changer, folks. Brace yourselves.
The sting’s the thing 63
Posted on
July 29, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We talk often of the “swarm of wasps” approach to debate that’s the main strategy of the No campaign. The guiding principle of it is to throw out so many dubious assertions, straw men and red herrings, all at once, that it’s all but impossible for your opponent to effectively counter all the different thrusts of the attack, like trying to swat wasps with a broken tennis racquet.
To see how it works, let’s take a look at the Herald’s front page splash today.
Everybody’s talking 122
Posted on
July 28, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Since this’ll be the hot subject of the day, you might as well see it for yourself.
Later than you think 364
Posted on
July 24, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
In an extraordinary outburst on TV last night, “Better Together” campaign chairman Alistair Darling accused Alex Salmond of exaggerating the amount of extractable oil in the Scottish sector of the North Sea by 1,200%.
The former Chancellor (who we learned a few weeks ago thinks the population of Scotland is six million, creating an impressive 705,000 imaginary Scots) suggested that rather than the 24 billion barrels currently estimated by the oil industry – and commonly cited by the UK government – there were in fact just 2 billion barrels left.
As BT are a tad wobbly with numbers, let’s do a quick bit of arithmetic on that.
If you build it 80
Posted on
July 21, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
In the whole of 2012, Wings Over Scotland was visited by 141,012 unique users, who made just under 2.6 million pageviews. In 2013 so far, we’ve reached 285,581 unique users who between them racked up over 6.6m pageviews.
Just wait until we really get started.
Ideological arithmetic 29
Posted on
July 20, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
ComRes for ITV News, 20 July 2013:
The home front 53
Posted on
July 17, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
An alert reader today pointed us towards internet traffic analysis site Alexa.com, and in particular its statistics for the Yes and No campaigns’ official websites. There was an interesting quirk (or at least one that might pass for interesting in the silly season).
Can you spot it?
Massive oil leak discovered 184
Posted on
July 11, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We have a bit more respect for Professor Brian Ashcroft than most of the No camp’s scaremongers (indeed, we’ve even run an article of his on Wings Over Scotland), so we looked with interest at the latest entry on his blog yesterday, a piece with the fairly self-explanatory title of “Has Scotland already spent its oil fund?”
It purports to examine what Scotland’s financial position would have been had it been independent for the last 32 years, in response to a Scottish Government document (which was backed up by fullfact.org) showing that Scotland had been a large net contributor to the UK over the period, but arrives at a bizarrely tangential conclusion.
Changing the record 66
Posted on
July 09, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Oh dear, here we go again. The latest Scotsman/SoS poll yesterday afternoon:
And here it is this morning:
