• lazynooblet@lazysoci.al
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    1 year ago

    I wonder if the guardian asked 10 people, of which one of them said this, and so they assumed 10% of the country is doing it. It says “since May”, when it was at times 30C+, I dont beleive this at all.

    • mannycalavera@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      https://www.jrf.org.uk/

      The guardian don’t link to the research used to make this claim. It’s apparently from the Joseph Roundtree Foundation but a quick scan of their site didn’t turn up anything to corroborate the guardian’s analysis. I must stress I am at work and only looked for a short amount of time.

      Nevertheless it would be useful for a paper such as the guardian to properly quote and attribute their claims.

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      1 year ago

      These stats are according to “the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) charity”, the guardian are just reporting what they said