{"id":8349,"date":"2012-02-24T13:57:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T13:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=8349"},"modified":"2012-02-24T13:57:42","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T13:57:42","slug":"that-didnt-take-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=8349","title":{"rendered":"That Didn\u2019t Take Long!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this morning about the <a title=\"DSA to publish statistics online - monthly\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=8329\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><font color=\"#800000\">DSA\u2019s new online statistics<\/font><\/a>, and suggested that the amateur statisticians might have some fun with them.<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t take long. <font color=\"#800000\">KentOnline trumpets that the driving test pass rate is improving<\/font>, and creates a whole article around that.<\/p>\n<p>The simple fact is that the pass rate has gone up from 44% two years ago, to 46% last year, to 47% for the current year so far. A 3% rise over three years is hardly significant.<\/p>\n<p>It also doesn\u2019t take into account the fact that the national pass rate was 46% in 1999, and has hovered between 45-47% ever since then. In other words, the pass rate isn\u2019t increasing \u2013 it just appears to have done so over the last three years to people who haven\u2019t got a clue about statistics and statistical significance.<\/p>\n<p>And now, <a title=\"RAC stating the obvious\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rac.co.uk\/news-advice\/motoring-news\/post\/2012\/2\/driving-test-pass-rate-reaches-47\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><font color=\"#800000\">the RAC is on the case<\/font><\/a> with pointless prose. So far, all these have done is just repeat what is in the DSA data, but using different words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this morning about the DSA\u2019s new online statistics, and suggested that the amateur statisticians might have some fun with them. It didn\u2019t take long. KentOnline trumpets that the driving test pass rate is improving, and creates a whole article around that. The simple fact is that the pass rate has gone up from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[81,85,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driving-test-related","category-dsa-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}