Robert Cuffe

@BBCNews’s statistician. Number nerd 24-7-365.2425.

[Robert Cuffe @robertcuffe]

At the BBC we pulled out interesting leads in the Mandelson doc drop using Google's AI-powered journalism assistant. Clips have deets: 1 is an intro to the docs, 2 is what we did/found.

Ofc, pretty much all the lines/leads found by expert journos - this helps the manpower.

[Robert Cuffe @robertcuffe]

More UK deaths than births expected every year from now on

https://t.co/eT2r6hlRCp

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More young men living at home looks a lot like a flight home after uni that mainly (but not all) fades away over the 20s.

https://t.co/jb0Z2BVt77

[Robert Cuffe @robertcuffe]

good growth in feb is more likely a swallow than a summer

[Rob Eastaway @robeastaway]

Should you go first in a penalty shoot-out?
Which lane would you choose in a 400 metre final?
And should you work on your tennis serve?

Some myths debunked in my article for AB magazine.
https://t.co/0qUb186KW9

[Robert Cuffe @robertcuffe]

Analogy chosen for the Arsenal fan in the house…

[Office for Statistics Regulation @StatsRegulation]

Our new guidance explains appropriate use of renewable energy statistics for Scotland during upcoming elections, with clarity on key measures like installed capacity, derated capacity & actual generation👇
https://t.co/RUTC65Ejnc

[Robert Cuffe @robertcuffe]

meh inflation in feb is the best we'll see for a while.

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Prompted by a q on this line in a PQ from @anthony_reuben

"Figures have been rounded to 10 for presentational purposes. Numbers ending in 5 have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systemic bias."

https://t.co/ZjeWSlAuft

[Robert Cuffe @robertcuffe]

Rounding reminder - to the nearest whole number:

0.5 = 0
1.5 = 2
2.5 = 2
3.5 = 4.....

Don't @ me. @ the IEE754 and round to the nearest even number.
https://t.co/DlQINvKXu6

[Robert Cuffe @robertcuffe]

Has anyone seen a good stats analysis of The Traitors?

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40k small boat crossings so far this year is
- second highest on record
- less than half of asylum claims*
- about 5% of immigration*

*July '24 - June '25, latest figs

More on BBC's migration tracker: https://t.co/dvShLfDC8N

[Robert Cuffe @robertcuffe]

Record* life expectancy for women in the UK.

*by 0.01 years.

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Record* murder rate in England and Wales

*low

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@ShabanaMahmood @ukhomeoffice Is this a repeat of the claim that includes people who leave under their own steam?

https://t.co/cwG3eTJfNE

[Robert Cuffe @robertcuffe]

Strong +1. Civil servants made excellent technical contributions to recent UK Statistics Assembly.

[Helen Miller @HelenMiller_IFS]

😲Govt will stop public servants speaking in public

Really bad idea

Officials add LOADS to debates, e.g. explain technical policy details
Cutting them out of debates will reduce transparency & quality of public discourse

I agree with @DrHannahWhite :
https://t.co/6uqzqeUOZ3

[Robert Cuffe @robertcuffe]

Among the new BBC guidelines taking effect in September is an expanded chapter on stats, data, polls and surveys

https://t.co/XiFfQyFoMa

[Robert Cuffe @robertcuffe]

Difference between inner and outer London v clear in this thread
https://t.co/HOKaUI3ttS

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

But now let's add in outer London too. It's pretty much like the rest of England and Wales now. At the very lower end of car ownership at every income level, but not an outlier. So Hillingdon in London is just like Milnthorpe in Wakefield. On these two measures.

[Robert Cuffe @robertcuffe]

The cyclist's illustration of Simpson's paradox

"Transport policy crafted for a non-existent average Londoner is doomed: the mean conceals a multimodal reality."

[Joe Hill @jo3hill]

🚨A tale of two sub-regional urban zones

@NeilGarratt has written for the Greater London Project about the stark and persistent divide in car use between inner and outer London 🔗👇

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

NHS data officer's network raises concerns about the way NHS England is rolling out its federated data platform. The idea might be sound, but the implementation is as ever getting bumpy. Thoughts?