Posts relating to ‘legal expenses’
Loan Fee Fraud
15 December 2020
Loan fee fraud is when you pay an upfront fee for a loan or credit you never receive. Christmas Retail therapy – a loan fee fraud-(sters) Christmas bonus! This scam made up 1 in 8 (12%) of all scam reports last December to the Financial Conduct Authority. This Christmas, 34% of people under increased financial… Read more
Armed Forces Home Insurance
30 November 2020
Mass produced home and contents insurance never fits armed forces lifestyles. At Services Family Insurance, we have launched a new policy for the unique military lifestyle! A policy that moves with our Armed Forces personnel! When civilians move home they must buy a new policy to cover the new house and the location impacts the… Read more
Just another statistic? Causal Factors
17 November 2020
How statistics can cost us money! We spoke in the last two blogs about how it is easy to wrongly see two events in the progress of time as being seemingly connected. COVID-19 The correct analysis of “A causes B” must show them having a “causal link”. The Media is full of stories about young… Read more
Just another statistic? Lockdown, Part 2
5 November 2020
How statistics can change our lives! It is clear from COVID-19 that statistics change our lives. Inspired by the BBC’s More or Less: Behind the Stats podcasts, we explain what makes the debate so ‘hot’ – selection bias in COVID-19 statistics? All statisticians – from scientific modellers to political pundits – use sampling techniques to… Read more
Just another statistic? A 3 part series
31 October 2020
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” This phrase was popularized in the United States by Mark Twain and others. It was (possibly mistakenly) attributed it to the British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli. [according to Wikipedia] Part one – What have storks got to do with it? All explained in the… Read more