(Irish Times) - Medical research focusing on the work of British mathematician, Frederick Lanchester, suggests that his theories may explain why women live longer on average than men. Said Dr. Eoin "Sweet Release" O'Death of County Mayo Clinic: "...
A study in personal preferences over the way that people prefer to have data displayed has shown a remarkable personal bias among those questioned. Ninety-six percent of overweight people said that they preferred a pie chart as an information disp...
Advertising Watchdog, OffWatch, are to clamp down on misleading statistics in British Adverts, as they are being used to increasingly baffle UK consumers. Claims such as "Up to 8Meg Broadband" and "87% of Women" are to be scrapped, and simpler, mo...
New Research from the Bread School of Bredbury has shown that people prefer sandwiches with a filling, rather than plain bread. More controversially, it doesn't matter what the filling is, from Corned Beef and Piccalilli to Egg Mayonnaise or Prawn...
Washington D.C.--Republicans are protesting National Public Radio's firing of Juan Williams. "Sure, he made some really bigoted comments about Muslims, and what it meant for him to fear for his life when he saw one that looked Muslim, but he only...
As riots broke out around the world between the above-average minorities and below-average minorities, the world's most average man thought he was safe. John Doe, 45, is biracial, stands 5 feet, six inches tall, is only slightly obese, uses non-pr...
Neo-liberals around the world are reacting ferociously against news announced on The Spoof of the discovery that 'nearly half of all people are below average'. The discovery was made by Devin Devlin, a population statistician with the University o...
Minorities around the world are rioting over the discovery by Devin Devlin that they are 'below average'. Devlin, a population statistician with the University of Mudbury, earlier revealed in The Spoof that his statistical methods show that all mi...
Roughly 94.7 percent of all facts are proved statistically, making statistics the top-ranked field in all scientific disciplines -- and the main source of all new discoveries. Delving deeply into population statistics, statistician Devin Devlin ha...
A recent scientific study carried out whilst driving to work, statistically proved that while driving, candidate A made the correct decision 100% of the time, whilst candidate B was more likely to be incorrect 100% of the time regardless of the opini...
New Government predictions of the spread of swine flu in the UK suggest that 100,000 people per day could be becoming infected by the end of August. This projection is based on an estimate that the number of infections will double every week. The...
Statistics released today including the regular quota by CNN include the following: 68% of Americans believe Satan is real. 66% of Americans think the world was created by God. 64% of Americans think that aliens have contacted humans. 63% of Americans think the movie and television industries are not run by Jews. 20% of American graduating seniors are functionally illiterate.
The National Statistics Office has unearthed some hitherto unpublished facts which were released today in an effort to get away from stories about mad Islamic clerics, Jade Goody, senior bankers' bonuses, the Home Secretary's homes, extortionate trai...
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