Forsooth (July-August 2005)

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Frank Duckworth, editor of the Royal Statistical Society's newsletter - RSS NEWS has given us permission to include items from their forsooth column which they extract them from media sources. Of course we would be happy to have readers add items they feel are worthy of a forsooth!

From the May 2005 RSS News:

He tried his best--but in the end newborn

Casey-James May missed out on a 48 million-to-one record by four minutes. His father Sean, grandfather Dered and great-grandfather Alistair were all born on the same date - March 2. But Casey-James

was delivered at 12.04 am on March 3....

Metro 10 March 2005


In the US, those in the poorest households have
nearly four times the risk of death of those in the richest.

Your World report
May 2004