'Speak with data' is an adage I often use when we need statistics to back something up. This happened in a climate change debate yesterday, where an Australian climate change denier clashed with the scientist Brian Cox, who proceeded to indeed speak with data and pulled a few graphs out of his back pocket to prove the point that global warming was really happening. Unfortunately, the opposing guy had seen it all before, and dissed the data as being manipulated by NASA. Why NASA would want to alter the figures I don't know, but this guy obviously thought it was a good line of argument and probably left the debate feeling as if he had won.
So this brings me back to 'Speak with data' - pretty pointless if its easily dismissed, so maybe should be 'speak with irrefutable data'.
In the Olympics, the data is definitely speaking - GB second in the medal table! Evidently we have ex-prime minster John Major to thank for this. I didn't read the article, but it must be a lottery funding article.
So my twenty pounds or so I have invested in the lottery to date have been worth it, but not for me.
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