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[caladria]

A third of homes in the UK have broadband speeds well below the national average, according to research from price comparison site uSwitch.

While half of addresses get broadband speeds of 6.7Mbps or above, a third struggle to get speeds above 5Mbps, 1.7m speed tests found. ( Read more... )

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[thaddeusfavour]

LOL! My maths, let me show you them!

[caladria]

That's our national broadcaster, there. So proud!

(And hey, you're alive!)

[uhsir]

I love ripping up statistic "reports." Most of the time they don't see the whole picture. I consider it an insult. I encouraged both of my kids to take a statistics class in college. I told them it would be the most difficult but most fun math class they ever take. And the only post-elementary level math I guaranteed they'd find useful for the rest of their lives.

[caladria]

Well, I guess by now they know you lied and statistics is a horrible, horrible thing to do to a child and not fun at all (I think I've forgotten all my post-16 statistics, but the different types of averages and distributions and simple probability and t-tests get me by in the real world).

Mechanics and algebra, otoh, makes the world go round and I loved them.

Seriously, though, at 10 years old you can figure out that half the numbers are going to be below the average and half above. I just wish that the BBC Radio 4 stats programme was on the air at the minute. *sigh* They'd have fun with that one.

[uhsir]

B-but, I wasn't lying. Actually what it resulted in is another notch on the "Mom is crazy" stick. :D