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FULL FACT TRAINING
Full Fact has launched No Fear Data training!
No Fear Data is about gaining confidence in using data and spreadsheets in your job and day-to-day life. Over three mornings, you'll be learning about the basics of how datasets are structured, how to plan a data analysis, how to use spreadsheets and pivot tables to answer questions about a dataset, and how to make compelling visualisations to summarise your work.
Led by our training manager, experienced tutor and fact checker Joseph O’Leary, the sessions will give you a chance to learn, practice new skills, and work in small teams to analyse data and report on what you learn to the group.
You’ll also get tailored support if there are concepts or skills you’d like to practice more, and a workbook to take away at the end so you can keep practicing at home.
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THE FULL FACT PODCAST
Series 3, episode 8: Freedom day
Following the Prime Minister's unlocking announcement, we analyse the Covid figures and resolve confusion about the effectiveness of face masks.
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FACT CHECK
Man reporting Covid-19 misinformation to police
Many of our readers have asked us to check claims in a video on Facebook of a man filming himself in a police station making a complaint about Covid-19 vaccines.
The video is over 30 minutes long, but we have looked at the main claims he makes, including reports suggesting Covid-19 vaccines have caused a 2,000% increase in miscarriages.
There’s no evidence miscarriages are being caused by the vaccine. You would expect the number of miscarriages following vaccination to increase as more younger people of childbearing age, a proportion of whom may have a miscarriage, become eligible to get vaccinated.
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FACT CHECK
Why school testing data doesn’t tell the whole story
On the Today programme last week, shadow schools minister Kate Green claimed that 80% of schoolchildren are not doing coronavirus tests. A similar claim was made in a letter sent to the education secretary.
Since early March, pupils in secondary schools and further education colleges have been asked to take two lateral flow device tests per week to stop the spread of Covid in schools.
However, the data Ms Green refers to just looks at the number of tests recorded, not the number of tests done (which may be much higher), so can’t be used to make this claim. In fact, the Department for Health and Social Care told Full Fact it knows many negative test results are not being reported.
Given pupils are asked to be tested twice a week, you can’t really use the figures available to talk about the proportion of pupils being tested (though if we did have those figures, they would be lower and seem to support Labour’s point even more).
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MORE FACT CHECKS
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