On Friday, 10 January 2014 18:49:42 UTC, wrote:
"John Hall" wrote in message

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Lawrence Jenkins writes:

Okay just to clarify the facts. Our friend Jim felt that due to their

AGW stance that Julia Sligo and John Hirst were named in the

honours list. I agreed with him but facts have to back that up so I

emailed UKMO and asked how many previous UKMO individuals

had previously been awarded . The answer came back 15 in 20

years and that included the latest two so that leaves thirteen in 19

years and then two in the twentieth year.



That tends to make me still agree with Jim.



I suspect that if you did a statistical analysis of those figures, then

based on 13 in 19 years you would find that two in one year was not that

unlikely to occur if the awards can be considered to be made at random.

After all, if - as might easily have happened - Julia Sligo had been

honoured last year and John Hirst this year, or vice versa, it wouldn't

have seemed at all out of the ordinary.



It is Julia Slingo not "Sligo".

She thoroughly deserves her award. Well done Julia!



Will

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Nah you got that wrong, Slingo is a county in Ireland.