FOOTBALL fans tend to view their teams through rose-tinted glasses, not cold, hard stats.
I decided I wanted some cold, hard stats on the matter last night, and I started Googling — but it seems no one's done a study on precisely this question (if you know of one, please share!).
The sidelining of women in the music industry is proven by cold hard stats: women make up only 14% of PRS for Music writers and performers; 86% of all performers at UK music festivals last year were men; at the 2015 BBC Proms, only 10% of the pieces performed were composed by women.
These are simply the cold, hard stats when it comes to finishing bottom. .
Credit a large media presence in the Gaza Strip not just to providing those numbers, but the haunting images, stories, videos and interviews that have amplified the cold hard stats.
As someone who has both kept resolutions ("Maybe stop eating meat??") and broken them ("Be a nicer person!") I've done some mathematical calculations, and based on cold, hard stats (but mostly my own opinions), I've worked out precisely how long some of the most common resolutions get kept for.
Disclaimer: The following information is based on "popularity," as in not cold hard sales stats since that info is not made available by either mobile carriers or manufacturers (and therefore, the rankings below are subjective).
The stats speak a cold truth: there are dozens of prosaic choices behind every artful sentence.
The stats speak a cold truth: there are dozens of prosaic choices behind every artful sentence.Dwelling on this can inoculate writers against the preciousness of the workshop.
