Significant Figures

Headlines love a number. “Overrepresented.” “Surging.” “Widening.” The figure gets repeated everywhere and checked almost nowhere.

This site does the checking. Each post takes one claim you’ve probably seen, tracks down the public data behind it, and works through whether it holds up, showing every step so you can reproduce the answer or argue with it.

Overrepresented compared to whom? Are women and non-white people really overrepresented in higher education? The England and Wales 2021 census settles it.

The role of the denominator Stop and search disparity ratios swing widely depending on which population you divide by, holding the same seventeen years of searches fixed.

Where the graduates go Graduates enter the workforce diverse. Sector by sector, LEO data shows where representation and pay diverge afterward — and why.