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Checking Stats of the Year 2019
What is your favourite statistic of the year and decade?
The Royal Statistical Society runs Statistic of the Year, highlighting prominent statistics in public debate. Since it is 2019, Statistics of the Decade was also discussed.
As a Statistical Ambassador, I was asked to help check the submissions and their wording. In this article, I give my ratings and reasoning for each statistic I was asked to look at.
Nomination: Between 2010 and 2018, an area equivalent to 7,226,217 football pitches was deforested in the Amazon Rain-forest.
Rating: Needs clarification.
Reasoning: Not all football pitches are the same size. Football pitches must be between 90m and 120m long, and between 45m and 90m wide.
International football pitches have a narrower range, between 100m and 110m in height, and between 64m and 75m wide. 10 of the 20 current FA Premier League teams have a pitch sized 105m by 68m, which meets international standards.
