Posts by Russell Brown
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Then again, I wonder if they considered that fact that an OE is commonplace, and that cocaine is readily available in the primary OE destination - London. So the 4% is not so much a measure of NZ, but more a measure of the narcotic lollyshop that is London.
I recal in the late 90s the usual kvetching about the outflow of our young folk to London. There were lots of possible reasons cited in the media.
But as a twentysomething friend of a friend said: "I'm here for the five quid Es!"
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__They deliberately oversampled Maori and Pacific populations in the Te Rau Hinengaro survey, which makes the overall sample large.__
can we have a please explain?
a large sample size is de rigeuer. do you mean that they overlaid some stats to inflate impacts? </che exposes lack of knowledge about statistical analysis, again>
No, they'd have re-weighted the data. They just wanted to get the best possible data for that target group, which you do by increasing the sample size.
[Sez Brown, with none o' them fancy degree things at all ...]
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Interesting to see that Ponsonby still has a pocket of "most deprived". Deprived of "what"? This season's Issey Miyake?
I'd have to look again, but i think that was a retail strip. There are evidently some quirks where it comes to places where people don't actually live.
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And just like that, someone from MSD got in touch to answer my question about New Zealand's large sample size in the WHO survey:
The New Zealand study included in this report is "Te Rau Hinengaro: The New Zealand Mental Health Survey". The large sample size probably reflects the fact that this was the first comprehensive study of its kind of the New Zealand population for some time, and is sampled to allow for meaningful analysis and understanding of the mental health of many gender and ethnic sub-groups. (Because many mental health events are rare events, sample sizes need to be large to generate reliable statistics.)
Perhaps other countries' studies were more specifically drug-focused, or less concerned with subgroup analysis, and so able to use smaller samples.
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It's political correctness gone magic!
Actually, that's a really neat way of characterising it.
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Beulah, you're wrong.
Alison Ritter did not create the AFP Drug Harm Index. That was McFadden and Mwesigye.
She is associated with the Drug Policy Modelling Program at the University of New South Wales -- which is the Index we should have had.
But thanks for leading me to this fascinating paper comparing drug index theories, presented by Ritter in April. It is most enlightening.
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And just to totally change the subject...
At midnight on the last day of June, can I pat the other PAers on the back for this being the first month when we've exceeded 55 thousand unique readers (56,491 to be precise -- with a mean visiting time of 8 minutes).
And that would also be a staggering 7 million hits this month -- 50 per cent more than the number of people in the country.
I should point out that that's our internal count. Third-party measures (ie Nielsen and Google Analytics) have us quite a bit lower on unique visitors, but that's the case for all web publishers. Every now and then we web titans get together to bitch about it.
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Qi-Shan Lim talks to David Slack and Damian Christie about creating New Zealand's first political prediction market.
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We vote because we think we should. Because when we were younger our parents took us with them when they were voting and it was solemn and seemed important. We vote because there's one day ever three years when voting is what you do – what everyone does.
Amen. My earliest memory of my parents voting is when I was 10; and yes, even in a not-political family, it seemed momentous. This year, our older boy is on the roll, but will miss out on eligibility to vote by about seven months. I'd have loved to have helped him towards his own decision.
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Hello!
This evening I happened to bump into the very person who tipped off the Standard to the RDU interview.
Let's just say: Labour-friendly, but not in Wellington and not in or at Parliament. So all ninth-floor conspiracies should be set aside.
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