Numbers<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many of my political and social observations come from a lot of background reading, and looking at statistics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Farming<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are a couple of things which farmers have been complaining a lot about of late. They are the rising prices of fuel and nitrates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While a lot of them are also moaning about the prices they are getting for what they are selling to the supermarkets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All of which leaves me thinking that we might soon be finding organic crops becoming much cheaper to grow than that which is produced by intensive chemical spraying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Statistical Pointers To Better Understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of course some problems which prevent our better understanding of the world come from other factors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Take for example the main form of colour blindness which is Red \/ Green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While 1 in 12 men suffer from colour blindness, only 1 in 200 women do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then there are the 1 in 7 of the adult population which are to a greater of lesser extent functionally illiterate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So a lot more thought needs to be given as to how to improve public signs and how they are written.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Not understanding the numbers<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is also no use complaining about falling standards of scientific understanding, while the lever of adult numeracy is so very high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just take a look at the following reports-<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Almost half of the UK lacks basic financial literacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n and<\/p>\n\n\n\n One-in-three adults in England and Northern Ireland cannot work out the correct change from a shopping trip, according to new research from UCL Institute of Education (IOE) and University of Cambridge.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n No Receipt \u2013 No Record \u2013 No Ability to keep an eye on financial issues<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of course it does not help individuals to budget their spending, if they throw away or never pick up their receipts for their purchases, ( a trend which seems to be increasing ). This means they can not see their pattern of spending over the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then comes the question of inflation, low wages, low salary increases, and pensions which are so low that many older individuals are living in dire poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thus aside from the number of food banks increasing, we also have a situation in which many individuals are asking whether they should turn on their heating during winter, or eat that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The same can be said of politicians and planners who are incapable of looking at any long term effects of current public spending or the effects it will have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eat or Freeze<\/p>\n\n\n\n While the Rabid Right Wing Tory Government of Brexitland has just no idea of what this means, as many of them are millionaires.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Is it any wonder that many of us think that living in Brexitland equates to living within a shambolic and dystopian version of a Neo-fascist Kafkaland.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Numbers Many of my political and social observations come from a lot of background reading, and looking at statistics. Farming There are a couple of things which farmers have been complaining a lot about of late. They are the rising prices of fuel and nitrates. While a lot of them are also moaning about the … Continue reading Recent Observation, Notes, Stats, & Observations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}