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FactCheck: how many CCTV cameras?
Author(s) -
Tarleton Alice
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2009.00400.x
Subject(s) - excellence , alice (programming language) , journalism , law , computer science , political science , history , art history
Each year the Royal Statistical Society awards prizes for statistical excellence in journalism. This year's winner was Alice Tarleton for this piece, which first appeared on the FactCheck website of Channel Four News on June 18th, 2008. Politicians claim that Britain has one closed circuit surveillance camera for every 14 of its citizens. Their evidence would be laughed out of any court.