Ok, so I have a question...

[wattaj]

Given that sex (not "gender" ) is binary; what was the gap that gave rise to the 7% increase in 12 months?


Reference: The Self-Employed Landscape Report 2019 | IPSE

[wattaj]

It gets worse: there is clearly a demographic or total at play in the breakdown of the data, but this detail is missing from their charts.



Wouldn't have been allowed to happen in my day.

[wattaj]

Ah, hold on a mo'; I think that their using a circle representative of the whole and not, as I had assumed, as a pie. That's the only explanation that I can come to for this nonsense.

The whole report is riddled with this rubbish.

Excellent work IPSE.

[ladymuck]

Is the first chart doing two things?

1. What % of artisan cheesemakers are male / female
2. Of the total increase in artisan cheesemakers since 2018 what proportion of that increase is male / female

Probably the same for the second chart but this time looking at single stay at home parents needing fast broadband?

[wattaj]

Is the first chart doing two things?

1. What % of artisan cheesemakers are male / female
2. Of the total increase in artisan cheesemakers since 2018 what proportion of that increase is male / female

Yes, this is the conclusion that I came to as well. It's just not clear from the presentation of the data... that's the kind of thing that annoys me to an unnecessary degree.

[GhostofTarbera]

Ah, hold on a mo'; I think that their using a circle representative of the whole and not, as I had assumed, as a pie. That's the only explanation that I can come to for this nonsense.

The whole report is riddled with this rubbish.

Excellent work IPSE.

Remember when ipse said average contractor rates were £7.64 an hour

We all laughed and took this piss, that report they paid £50K on was kicked into the long grass

Now it’s a reality so wait a while it might become reality


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[wattaj]

Remember when ipse said average contractor rates were £7.64 an hour

We all laughed and took this piss, that report they paid £50K on was kicked into the long grass

Now it’s a reality so wait a while it might become reality.

I think that we might have hurt their feelings a bit that day. So sad.

[Scruff]

It must be the all singing, value for money, CRM that they obtained the stats from...

[SimonMac]

Anyone else find it strange that the only references that IPSE could cite was their own research rather than any independent source?

[jayn200]

Given that sex (not "gender" ) is binary; what was the gap that gave rise to the 7% increase in 12 months?


Reference: The Self-Employed Landscape Report 2019 | IPSE

Its not the greatest visualisation but the blue is % change of the total value for that specific gender from 2018 to 2019, not the % change of the % split between genders.

Data visualisation is still the wild west out there. Lots of people doing it without any training and you end up with weird visualisations like that.