Statistic of the Decade: The Massive Deforestation of the Amazon

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By The ConversationDec 26, 2019, 9:53 am261 pts
By Liberty Vittert This year, I was on the judging panel for the Royal Statistical Society's International Statistic of the Decade. Much like Oxford English Dictionary's "Word of the Year" competition, the international statistic is meant to capture the zeitgeist of this decade. The judging panel accepted…

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