FYI: the nice and friendly people at

paid for you that beer you’re drinking right now. Pretty damn nice of them!

You Can Handle the Truth

Empowering people to gain insight from official data

Brynjólfur Gauti Guðrúnar Jónsson

Statistics PhD student at HÍ
Statistician at Hjartavernd

Statistics

COVID-19

COVID-19

bggj.is/pages/covid19

COVID-19

Calling Bullshit

Framing

Framing



\[ \frac{9.000.000 \text{ hours}/\text{year}}{136.000 \text{ people}} \approx 66 \frac{\text{hours}/\text{year}}{\text{person}} \]

\[ \frac{66\text{ hours}/\text{year}}{365} \times \frac{60 \text{ minutes}}{\text{hour}} \approx 11 \frac{\text{minutes}}{\text{day}} \]

Trustworthiness



Open

Accessible

Intelligible

Useable

Who pays the taxes?

What does the data say?

Decile Total Annual Income Percent (Of all income) Cumulative percent
10th decile 750.482 mkr 34.4% 34.38%
9th decile 378.998 mkr 17.4% 51.74%
8th decile 279.787 mkr 12.8% 64.56%
7th decile 215.783 mkr 9.9% 74.44%
6th decile 169.861 mkr 7.8% 82.23%
5th decile 135.610 mkr 6.2% 88.44%
4th decile 111.373 mkr 5.1% 93.54%
3nd decile 83.980 mkr 3.8% 97.39%
2nd decile 46.748 mkr 2.1% 99.53%
1st decile 10.286 mkr 0.5% 100.00%

The debts are too damn high!

What does the data say?

Size of the government workforce

Landspítali

Inflation

Thank you!

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